Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that chilling calculation, spelled out in a note left in U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick's Cadillac in Rio, a group of Brazilian terrorists last week launched a fantastic-and successful-caper worthy of Mission: Impossible. Expanding on a terror technique already familiar in Latin America, leftists kidnaped the U.S. diplomat, blackmailed South America's most powerful government, sprang a randy group of political prisoners from jail and got them to sanctuary in another country-on a Brazilian military plane. The abductors' note was signed by two bands-the National Liberation Action Group, a Brazilian anti...
Food and sex. Sex and food. Chicken in coconut milk-vatapá-then a white night under the stars. These constitute life in the Brazilian state of Bahia, according to its most celebrated writer, Jorge Amado. They are also the fixed points in the remarkable history of his latest heroine, Dona Flor...
Visually the documentary parts have a seeming aimlessness that borders on irresponsibility. It includes one marvelous establishing shot of the Brazilian people: a tightly packed ferry nudges into dock, the retaining rope falls, and Brazilian men and women come running towards the camera in slow motion. Much of the rest of the footage comes on as a Coca-Cola travelogue, complete with the familiar dialectic of Old and New: large cathedrals, ornate Spanish architecture, monuments and statuary versus shots of the people gaily swinging through the busy streets of Brazil's modern cities, qua qua. And there to help them...
Died. Júlio de Mesquita Filho, 77, Brazilian publisher, head of O Estado de São Paulo, one of South America's most influential and respected dailies; of pneumonia; in São Paulo. All through the 1930s Mesquita fought the demagoguery, corruption and censorship of Dictator Getúlio Vargas and was one of the forces that eventually brought his overthrow in 1945. In 1964, Mesquita lent his powerful support to the coup that ousted Leftist President João Goulart, but later grew disenchanted with the military dictatorship that resulted, and rejoined the battle...
...Brazilian students at Harvard with the Inter-American University Foundation invite everyone to a South American carnival at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Winthrop JCR. Dress up in costume if you want to look like everyone else...