Word: sao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bustling 32-acre plant outside the Brazilian town of Sao Bernardo do Campo last week, coveralled workmen proudly rolled a pair of shiny new compact cars off the assembly line. Hardly had they done so when William Max Pearce, 49, general manager of Willys-Overland do Brasil, announced his plans to send the two cars-the first production models of the new Aero-Willys 2600-to Paris for next month's international auto exposition. Pearce and Willys had reason to be excited. The Aero-Willys is Brazilian from taillights to engine block-the first car to be completely designed...
...endemic in Brazil; 2,644 cases were reported in 1960, and 1,411 in 1961. Near Laranjeiras the Orrs had visited a ranch where children were down with the pox, but nobody paid much heed or knew what kind.* By the time the Orrs got to bustling, ultramodern Sao Paulo, 400 miles away, James William Orr, 14, complained of fever and a sore throat. A local doctor diagnosed influenza and hopefully dosed him vith medicine. The feverish boy lay around Viracopos airport for hours before he flew, with 82 other travelers, on a Comet 4 jet to Idlewild...
...Chatô's parental feelings were tied up in his growing press empire and in the men he impulsively picked to manage it. In a fit of rage in the early 1930s, Chatô fired one of his Sao Paulo managers and replaced him with the first person his eye lit on. The chosen one: Office Boy Edmundo Monteiro, who eventually worked his way to control of all of Chatô's companies in Sāo Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina states. A few years later in Rio, Chatô went rowing with a student named...
...curiously, Kubitschek's suggestions that were to have the widest reach and scope concerned the relatively prosperous area of the central South. (This area, which includes the most heavily industrial sectors such as those of Sao Paulo, is generaly considered the key to overcoming Brazil's most perplexing economic problem: an unfavorable balance of trade...
Brazil's harassed new President Joao Goulart sent a letter saying that he could not possibly get around to opening the exhibition before the end of the month; but those in charge of the sixth Sao Paulo Bienal decided not to wait to announce the prizewinners. The art world was impatiently waiting; the Bienal ranks with the Venice Biennale and the Carnegie International Art show in Pittsburgh as tops in prestige. And this year the Sao Paulo show is huge: 4,000 works by 1,049 artists from 51 nations-much too much to be absorbed...