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Suddenly, late in the week, Gonçalves let go-but not entirely. A communiqué issued from the presidential palace announced that he would be replaced as Premier by Navy Chief of Staff Admiral José Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo, 58, a career officer who has occasionally filled in for President Francisco da Costa Gomes. Gonçalves himself was given the post of Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, which Costa Gomes had held simultaneously with the presidency...
Looking to Bethlehem. After manganese was discovered in the Amazon, a mineowner named Augusto Trajano de Azevedo Antunes obtained the mining rights and began looking for foreign help to swing the operation. A number of U.S. companies turned him down, insisting on 100% of the business or nothing at all. Finally, in 1949, Bethlehem Steel agreed to supply Antunes with financing and technical know-how in return for a minority interest. The arrangement has proved so successful that it has been imitated of ten by other mining, oil and industrial companies getting started in Brazil...
...International Court of Justice received its first case, the British-Guatemalan dispute over British Honduras, to be heard in April at The Hague, when the court meets for the first time with these Assembly-elected judges: Charles De Visscher (Belgium), J. Philadelpho de Barros e Azevedo (Brazil), Sir Arnold D. McNair (Britain), John E. Read (Canada), Hsu Mo (China), Alejandro Alvarez (Chile), Abdel Hamid Badawi Pasha (Egypt), J. Gustavo Guerrero (El Salvador), Jules Basdevant (France), Fabela Alfaro (Mexico), Helge Klaestad (Norway), Bohdan Winiarski (Poland), Sergei B. Krylov (Russia), Green H. Hackworth (U.S.), Milovan Zoricich (Yugoslavia...
There were outbursts from pulpit and press. Monsenhor João Azevedo, priest of the straying sheep of Pindamonhangaba, denounced the spiritualists as cheats and frauds, offering to prove that one of the witness doctors, under cover of music and darkness, had removed the appendix himself. But the spiritualists prepared to welcome hordes of new converts. Their Pindamonhangaba center was deluged with requests for the painless professional services of ghostly Dr. Amaral...
...yard relay race--Won by Andover: De Azevedo, Kirk, Horne, DeWitt. Time...