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Peddlers"& Sin Czars. In Goulart's own official household, his presidential press secretary, Raul Ryff, 52, doubled -but in name only-as $6,000-a-year treasurer of one of Brazil's many social security institutes; his real sideline, according to the investigators, was peddling influence, and he picked up $25,000 on one coffee deal alone. A second member of Goulart's staff, his private secretary, added $15,000 to his regular $8,400 salary when Goulart named him minister-counselor for economic affairs in Brazil's Rome embassy; his nearest approach...
...Deputies had made a fortune by adding 1,295 people to his personal payroll in return for a slice of their paychecks. A fellow congressman, one Tenorio Cavalcanti, 58, required almost no investigation: he was already well known as a fulltime gangster (13 killings to his credit) and the sin czar who-fully protected by his congressional immunity -built Duque de Caxias, on Rio's northern outskirts, into a wide-open vice mecca famed for its brothels, gambling dens, brawling street fights and general folderol...
Norwegians are the most democratic and bourgeois of northerners, regard ostentation as a cardinal sin. They are also Scandinavia's most proficient athletes; everyone from five to 90 skis, swims and hikes. And many of them have summer cottages on the shores of the endless fjords; often businessmen commute to work by hydrofoil. Though 96% of the population is nominally Lutheran, the church plays little part in the nation's life. Says one churchman: "We are suffused with a pale benevolence instead of the antagonism we used to know...
Advertised as "a James Bond tour of the world's 14 most sinful cities," this book is, instead, possibly the year's most flagrant fake. Five years ago, the London Sunday Times asked Author Fleming to take a round-the-world tour to write some local-color travel pieces for the titillation of its family audience. Fleming did; the aging essays reprinted here are the result. About the closest Fleming got to sin was a $2 taxi dance in Macao and a $100 bet in Las Vegas. Most of the time he hardly troubles to conceal his boredom...
...rights plank in its platform. Were these pledges so much campaign stuff, or did we mean it? Were these promises on civil rights but idle words for vote-getting purposes, or were they a covenant meant to be kept? If all this was mere pretense, let us confess the sin of hypocrisy now and vow not to delude the people again...