Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite the fact that their car was covered with press markings. Freelance Cameraman Carl Hersch was driving in the city of Esteli when national guardsmen opened fire without warning; his passengers were wounded. The Washington Post's Karen DeYoung, the Chicago Tribune's Mark Starr and two Brazilian reporters escaped a mortar attack on the guerrilla-held town of Leon. In Managua last week, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich and three other reporters were caught in an artillery bombardment as they attempted to keep a rendezvous with Sandinista leaders. Says the Baltimore Sun's Gilbert...
Since last October, a two-ton green granite sculpture has been on display outside an uptown Manhattan art gallery. Valued at $80,000, the abstract 8-ft.-high Ubatuba (named after the Brazilian town where the granite was quarried) was the work of French Sculptor Antoine Poncet, a disciple of Jean Arp. Poncet hoped that Ubatuba would bring "a fresh and pure breath" to a city he calls "New York-the Tough." He was pleased that Gallery Owner Jacob Weintraub had put the sculpture outdoors "because there it comes in contact with the people." New Yorkers were pleased too: they...
Among the shabby, working-class shacks of Volta Redonda, a Brazilian steel town of 150,000 in the state of Rio de Janeiro, small groups of neighbors gathered on five different nights last week for a few hours of discussion. Steelworkers, retired welders, grandfathers, young housewives with children on their laps, sipped coffee on borrowed chairs and swapped views on local and national problems: the endless waiting lines at the state hospital, the expulsion of rural squatters by land speculators, nonexistent sanitation and paving in their city. "Mud is the symbol of our lives," Joao, a retired steelworker, said angrily...
With acquisition in mind, a Toronto investment management company that has $380 million in cash from the sale of a Brazilian utility, found its billion dollar baby in a 5 and 100 store. The company, Brascan, Ltd., announced last week that it was offering $1.1 billion for F.W. Woolworth Co., one of the largest cash takeover bids ever...
DIED. Guiomar Novaës, eightyish, eminent Brazilian pianist; of a heart attack; in Sao Paulo. Born the 17th of 19 children, Novaës began playing the piano at age four, and ten years later left her native country to study in Paris on a Brazilian government grant. Upon her American debut in 1915, she was hailed as "the Paderewska of the Pampas," and for the next five decades sustained that accolade through her recordings and international concerts. An intuitive musician and a supreme keyboard colorist, the tiny (5 ft.) virtuoso was renowned for her warm, effortless performances...