Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Revenue & Relief. Recently, at a ceremony on the Jupiá dam site, Brazilian President Arthur da Costa e Silva (TIME cover, April 21) was presented with a loan of $34 million from the Inter-American Development Bank. But 70% of the Urubupungá project was home financed. In fact, a reason for building two dams instead of one was to keep finances within reach: getting Jupiá into production fast will relieve the power shortage even while it produces revenue to build the second...
Beset by war, the Vietnamese piaster fell 38.6%. That chronic invalid, the Brazilian cruzeiro, lost another 31.8% of its value in 1966, and thus would pay for only 2% of the goods and services it could command a decade...
...Strauss had expected to find primitive and ignorant peoples frozen in cultural patterns, which, like the toys of childhood, civilization had long since put by. Instead, he found his intellectual peers. The Bororo, a naked tribe of the Brazilian interior, introduced him to a concept of life that might have been taken from the most sophisticated human thought. Whenever a native dies, the Bororo believed, "an injury is done not only to those near him but to society as a whole...
...January, a group in Harlem invited the young Brazilian to be their guest of honor at luncheon as "the most popular man of the Negro race in the world." That was a touch of hyperbole, although there is no doubt that Edson Arantes do Nascimento, 26, otherwise known as Pelé, is the most famous athlete in the world-at least outside of the U.S. His soccer team, Santos, was in New York when the Harlem invitation came, Pele explained in a TV interview last week in São Paulo. "I learned that this had connotations of the racial...
...will grow out of this thing you have for dictators and stop your juvenile swooning over every two-bit muscle man who comes along promising to make the trains run on time by jailing every lefty and long-hair in sight. Now you're whitewashing your new Brazilian hero with the same holy water you have sprinkled so smugly over similar free-world saviors, such as Thailand's boss. This brings to mind your fairy tales about Diem ten years back. If we are to avoid getting ensnared in other tragedies like Viet Nam, magazines like yours...