Word: sao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adhemar de Barros. once the flamboyant governor of São Paulo and lately a political down-and-out, last week dragged himself back from oblivion by winning the mayoralty of Sao Paulo city. The comeback was spectacular; a year ago Adhemar, convicted of giving away five state-owned trucks while in office, was living in uneasy exile in Bolivia...
...TRUCKS will be built in Brazil for first time. Automaker will spend $10 million for enginebuild-ing and foundry equipment, as a start, will eventually turn out six-cylinder Chevrolet truck engines from new plant near Sao Paulo in 1958, Chevy-type trucks later. G.M. is trebling its automotive investment in G.M. do Brasil, which now makes truck cabs and refrigerators, assembles trucks, cars...
Test Pilot. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, finally gratifying his long-felt urge to fly, ex-Aircraft Mechanic Olimpio Martines Neto, 27, hopped in a twin-engine DC-3 at the city airport, kept it aloft for three minutes, crash-landed in a crowded suburb, walked from the wreck with nothing more serious than a rip in the seat of his pants...
Last week, to the stunned amazement of all Brazil, Adhemar was back in the soup. Briskly reversing an earlier acquittal, Sao Paulo's state supreme court found Adhemar guilty of giving away five state-owned trucks, and sentenced him to two years in jail and five years' suspension of his civil rights, i.e., his all-important right to run for governor of Sao Paulo in 1958 or President again in 1960. The latter penalty was a grievous blow for Adhemar; he ran a close third in last October's na tional election, racked up a solid...
...crowded main street in downtown Sao Paulo, a lean, intense young man brandishing a length of rubber hose charged a paunchy, white-haired, grandfatherly type. "Nasty old man!" shouted the attacker. "I'll teach you a lesson!" The improvised truncheon whistled past the victim's head, thudded against his shoulder. After that the oldster did the teaching. He whipped off his glasses, grabbed the upswung truncheon with both hands, wrenched it away, then gave the young man several ferocious whacks with it before the cops put an end to the skirmish, a sequel to a talk...