Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every afternoon and evening, Alziro Zarur, 48, a squat, balding, onetime actor who now bills himself as Jesus' latter-day apostle, speaks to millions of Brazilians from Rio to the pampas borders of Uruguay. "I am not from left, from right or from center but from above," he says...
...affinity for mystics. In these troubled days for Brazil of squabbling politicians, wild inflation and widespread cynicism, there is a longing for someone to save the country, and this longing makes Zarur a possible candidate for the 1965 presidential elections. A recent poll in Sao Paulo and Rio gave Zarur 6% of the vote and fourth place among presidential candidates-trailing only ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, Governors Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara State and Adhemar de Barros of Sao Paulo State. Even before the poll, claim Zarur's lieutenants, Kubitschek offered him second place on the Kubitschek ticket. Zarur stayed...
When he fled to Rio de Janeiro in 1958, leaving behind a string of bank frauds totaling upwards of $800,000, Financial "Boy Wizard" Earl Belle, then 26, announced that he would "never" return to the U.S. Trouble is, Tinkerer Belle got himself into an international check-swindling operation in Brazil. When local cops tumbled to the game, Belle had a choice of going on trial there or back home. Home was where the clink is cleaner, and Belle was hustled aboard a New York-bound jet by a gent from Interpol. Two FBI men showed up at Idlewild...
Beyond the companies that they dominate or influence, the Rothschilds have holdings in more than 100 blue chips, including Royal Dutch/Shell, De Beers, Michelin, Rio Tinto, IBM. The French branch's string-tied bundles of stock fill an ancient five-story bank vault whose keyholes are hidden behind brass lionheads. In the buff sandstone building at 21 Rue Laffitte that has been home to de Rothschild Freres since 1817, muttonchop-whiskered family ancients line the walls in oil and marble, and ushers wearing black swallow-tailed coats attend the customers, while 300 employees quietly work. Guy de Rothschild occupies...
...raise its overseas capacity 30% within three years. Reynolds is putting up a mill in Canada and a fabricating plant in Turkey, and Kaiser has opened plants in India and West Germany. Recently, Kaiser joined Canada's Aluminium Ltd., France's Pechiney and Britain's Rio Tinto-Zinc Corp. in ambitious plans to build and operate a $112 million alumina plant in Australia. When all the world finally takes to aluminum, the U.S. companies plan to be there-profitably...