The chronicle., 1963-11-19
RIO DE JANEIRO CUPID

Some of the most beautiful
women of the world battle
on Rios handsome beaches,
many of them ''the national
type" = golden, tawny mulat-
tos who have the blood of sew
eral races and the innocent SEN
suality of carnival gaiety.
Brazil is a racial adventure.
Within one family the father
may have the features of a
Japanese, the mother an lndi-
an, a daughter a light skinned
Negro and a son blond hair and
blue eyes.
Immigrant waves from Ger
many, Poland, Japan, Italy and
other countries have been lured
here by the promise of a
land of plenty.
This huge non-Spanish (most
Brazilians have no idea what a
"tamale" or a taco" isl Latin
American country boasts such
thorough assimilation that "a
cial incidents are practically
unknown.
From the arid, desert ranges
I'm the northeast to the pampa
wheat plains of the south, Bra
I'll offers variety in other ways.
It's geographic conditions vary
from the inaccessible, dense
Jungle of the Amazon basin, the
high center plateau where the
capital city of Brasilia was con-
Structed, to the billy south cen
trail region where nearly half of
Brazil's population lives.
Build Industrial System
Lately, Brazil has been build
ing up an impressive industrial
system to satisfy domestic
needs for television sets and
refrigerators, automobiles and
oil tankers. But the "giant of
the SOUTH - Brazil makes up
the eastern coastal bulge of
South America - has a long
way to go.
Brazil's mineral and hydro
electric potential for the most
part goes untapped because of
poor communications, sparse
population and totally made
quate transportation.
There are few paved roads in
the interior. The railway sys-
TENS are ancient and unrelia-
BILE. kilograms sent to some in
terror cities take weeks to ar
rive. Foreign exchange earn
ings still depend mainly on raw
materials = mostly coffee -
where world prices are unsta-
BILE. Her currency, the cruzeiro,
is one of the worlds weakest
and she faces a worsening for
eign trade position.
Successive governments have
built up a foreign debt of Is
billion dollars to United States
and other international lenders.
Her leaders say they are try
Ing to curb government spend
ing and halt initiation. But so
far they have not been success
full = initiation last year was
more than so per cent above
the previous year; this year it
Is expected to reach over IS
per cent.
Tremendous potential, how
ever, is in the country. Brazil
has enormous deposits Of man.
ganese and iron ore, nickel,
chrome, diamonds, quartz,
tungsten, coal, mica, tantalite
and oil. She has 40 1000 miles OF
navigabIe rivers Containing
three Of the worlds five largest
waterfalIs) with hydroelectrlc
potential estimated at 15.5 mil
lion kilowatts.
With u. S. and European
financial help, the country is
planning and building scores OF
dams to start Harvesting this
potential.
Produces Most Coffee
Brazil exports sugar, rice,
bananas, cotton, cocoa, pine
wood. castor beans, tea,
oranges, pineapples, corn, iron
and Manganese ore, sisal, wax
and wine. The United States
buys 70 per cent Of its coffee
from Brazil, the worlds great
est coffee producer.
Brazil copies many OF the
Democratic Institutions intro
duced in the United States aft
err the war Of independence. A
bi-cameral system of senate
and chamber Of deputies was
set up but was interrupted IN
1880 when a military coup put
CetIlio Vargas in power.