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Since receiving his law degree from the Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, Jaguaribe has helped to found several Brazilian institutes for the study of economics, sociology, and politics...
...nearby Zambesi River, bed down on tender sugar shoots and crush them. Even the world's longtime sugar producers are working to fatten yields. Brazil, where sugar has grown in the north for 400 years, is converting many unprofitable coffee areas to sugar in the southern states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Parana, and Mexico has built 71 mills, including the world's biggest one at Vera Cruz. The Philippine Republic has turned so much land to sugar production that a rice shortage has developed...
...Things are looking better," said a Rio banker. "Things are looking better," agreed an important army colonel. "Things are looking better," chimed in a wealthy ore exporter. It might not show everywhere - inflation pushed ahead 86.6% in 1964 -but a mood of optimism was spreading across Brazil...
...course, summer has arrived, and carnival could not be far behind, a carnival that in this, Rio de Janeiro's 400th anniversary year, promises to be a bash of sensational proportions. But that is not it. Brazilians have suddenly realized that the revolutionary government is getting somewhere. After a rocky start, President Humberto Castello Branco is at last making remarkable headway against the country's oversized problems. Items...
...government's new National Housing Bank, designed to combat the country's equally critical housing shortage, got its first project under way guaranteeing private loans to builders for 30,000 middle-income homes in Rio alone this year. The bank's target: 18 million houses and apartment units in the next 20 years...