Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week came the first test. In Guanabara state (Rio), a five-party coalition built around the Brazilian Labor Party had supported for governor retired Army Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, 70, who has repeatedly denounced the revolution as "undemocratic." Many Brazilians assumed that the government would trump up a charge to disqualify him. Instead, a state electoral court found a perfectly legal reason: Lott had thoughtlessly transferred his voting registration to another state. The opposition parties now seem set to pick a friendlier...
...world of finance and politics. Their sons and daughters were whirling at fashionable balls, attending the opera and negotiating advantageous marriages. Along the gaslit avenues, streetcars were beginning to compete with horse-drawn landaus. Sounds like some place in fin-de-siècle Europe? Actually it is Rio de Janeiro during the last quarter of the 19th century, as affectionately remembered by Brazil's extraordinary novelist, Machado de Assis, who died in 1908. A popular author during his lifetime, Machado was rediscovered in Brazil at the time of the centenary of his birth (1939). Since then, translations...
...month after Appomattox, a few hundred Union soldiers fought it out with a tiny Confederate force on the Rio Grande. Those were the last shots fired in the War Between the States. But the ensuing silence did not long endure. Before the year was out, hostilities had been resumed on that bloodless battlefield where all wars, all campaigners and all causes go after they die: the history books. Today, one century later, it begins to seem possible that historians will go on enthusiastically rewriting the war until kingdom come...
Ever since the 19th century days of Emperor Dom Pedro II, the Brazilian stock market has been a scene of chaos. The coun try's major stock exchange in Rio de Janeiro has been presided over by a closed group of 40 brokers who passed their seats on the bolsa down through their families, collected such lucrative commis sions on currency-exchange transactions that they have had little incentive to push stock purchases. Long confined to only two hours a day, the trading sessions usually took place amid such bedlam that little serious business was ever ac complished...
...Jaegar, Secretary of Edu- ention and Cultural Affairs, State Government, Rio Grande do Sul, explained the two-way approach of autonomy and centralization towards education in Brazil. The Federal government aids lower education which remains a local responsibility, decentralized in content as well as administration. While universities have full autonomy, they are financed by the state...