Word: souza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rigid right-winger who had helped lead the military's 1964 coup against left-leaning President Joāo Goulart, but has done little political maneuvering since. Technically, he is the senior man in the group, but he ranks an easy third in power and ambition. Souza, 63, is a hard-core rightist who is not likely to play a major political role. Lyra Tavares, 63, is the strongest, has the best political sense and is the most widely admired of the three. He came up through the engineers corps -traditionally the army's "intellectual" branch...
...chiefs were three of the President's strongest supporters - Army General Aurélio de Lyra Tavares, Air Marshal Márcia de Souza e Mello and Navy Admiral Augusto Hamann Ra-demaker Grunewald. It was they who had backed the old army marshal last December, when he suspended civilian rule. Moving smoothly and unhesitatingly, the triumvirate declared a "state of alert," temporarily closed down banks and blithely brushed aside Vice President Pedro Aleixo, a civilian lawyer who would normally have replaced an incapacitated President...
Until the past year, little was known of Tanzanite. Among the first to realize its value was a Goanese prospector named Manuel de Souza, who stumbled across a pocket of crystals in Tanzania in the summer of 1967. Samples were sent for appraisal to German lapidaries, who recognized the stones' potential for use in jewelry. Other prospectors dug in, and the area of that first find is now pockmarked with holes. "It is all rather like the Klondike," says Dr. John M. Saul, a New York geologist with three claims in the area...
...local crime rate has risen steeply, reports Saul, and "there's a great deal of dirty work, with shifting or substituting claim pegs." De Souza and his four sons now stand guard over their claims with shotguns. Tanzanian officials, who have been attempting to control the export of the gems, say that until three months ago no Tanzanite had left the country legally -a clear hint that many of the stones now in Europe or the U.S. were smuggled...
Rudolph Hurwich, owner of a small packaging outfit in San Francisco, was willing to listen to the visitor in his office one day in 1958. The guest was David Souza, from nearby Hayward, Calif., who had dropped by to try to peddle his invention: a simple, hand-operated labeling device for punching embossed letters onto adhesive plastic tape...