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...granfinos passed up the beaches for the cool mountain resorts of Petropolis and Teresopolis. Some Sao Paulo industrialists were different. They rolled down to Rio for a few weeks' fun on beaches, golf courses, race tracks. On Rio's shanty-shingled hillsides, purse-poor cariocas practiced carnival sambas every evening. The catchiest tune of the moment was no samba but a daffy little marcha parodying the United Fruit Co.'s singing commercial (Chiquita Banana) and titled Chiquita Bacana (Hot Baby...
...song-illustrated animation involving: 1) skating lovers, tintype style, emulated by rabbits; 2) Rimsky-Korsakov's bumblebee, tormented by a boogie bass; 3) Johnny Appleseed, advised by a Guardian Angel in a coonskin cap; 4) Donald Duck, Joe Carioca and Organist Ethel Smith in the throes of a samba; 5) an apotheosis of Joyce Kilmer's Trees; 6) a young tugboat named Little Toot which disgraces and redeems itself; 7) a tall-tale, free-for-all finale about Pecos Bill, his horse Widow-maker and his gal Sluefoot...
...make a carnaval hit: a catchy tune (reminiscent of the Maine Stein Song) and a daffy lyric. Because the government was out to make carnaval bigger & better after some wartime flops, De Barro and Ribeiro wrote Cat in lilting, one-step marcha time-quicker even than the sprightly samba beat...
...suburbs, Government supporters staged festinhas (little parties) during the hot summer evenings. Communists organized samba clubs, ran off dancing contests. Winners got loving cups marked with such slogans as "More If You Want It" and "Each Year It's Better." Observers gave the Communists a good chance to win a majority of the council, wondered how they would get along with Rio's Government-appointed mayor who might not have much use for them...
Chile's Benjamin Alberto Cohen, flyweight diplomat, welterweight newsman, and heavyweight samba & rumba expert, heads the Department of Public Information, which distributes painfully impartial U.N. news to the world. Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev, a Soviet expert on international law and one of Russia's less prickly emissaries, heads the Department of Security Council Affairs. The others: Economics-David Kemp Owen, mountain-climbing, poetry-loving Welshman and Foreign Office career man; Administrative & Financial Services-Kentucky's thin-shelled John B. Hutson, former director of the tobacco, sugar, rice & peanuts division of AAA; Social Affairs-sharp-eyed Henri Laugier, former...