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...Brazil," said newly appointed Finance Minister Oswaldo Aranha last week, "is a sick patient that needs to be told the truth." The truth, as Diagnostician Aranha bluntly told it, was even worse than the patient had thought: "Our total trade debt amounts to $1 billion. We owe the U.S. nearly $500 million." At home, "the cost of living has increased 11% more in the last five months; new money in circulation has increased 4 billion cruzeiros...
...remedy for the high-living patient: "We must live under a regime of real austerity [and] do without luxuries. We have plenty of cotton-so let us dress in cotton like Hindus. It is time to start living within our means. We must work, we must pay what we owe-and we will...
Turin, Italy's fourth largest city, is the capital of Italian industry. It is also the biggest company town in the world, dominated by a single colossus world-famed for its name: Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino). Almost two-thirds of Turin's 735,000 people owe their livelihood to Fiat; off the assembly lines of its 15 plants roll 90% of Italy's cars. But automaking is only the core of Fiat's industrial empire. A visitor to Turin rides to a Fiat-owned hotel in a Fiat taxi, reads a Fiat newspaper, drinks Fiat...
...they should answer all questions but those which they know will lead to criminal or perjury charges. Although silence may save friends or express moral indignation, it unquestionably tacitly incriminates their entire university community in the eyes of the public. Reacting in this way to investigations, teachers then equally owe it to their institutions not to let their temporary unpopularity prevent them from honest pursuit of the truth and full use of their political rights as citizens...
Representatives of all three groups refused to comment on the content of the discussions with Watson. Taylor claimed early in the evening that these conferences were "strictly confidential," and that "since no executive action by any organization has been taken. . . Dean Watson is the only party to whom we owe any explanations." He added that since action is suspended, the Council did not present Watson with the nine-page brief they had prepared...