The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 April 1967 — Page 4

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Saturday, April 15, 1947

Seven-Year-Old Brazilian Capital Blossoms Anew

BRASILIA, Brazil UPI—Box after box of concrete and glass march in rows down to the edge of nothing on a street named W-e. Peer down from a plane and Brasilia looks like an urban renewal project in search of a city. It is all freeways and shopping centers, parks and

playgrounds and big, boxy apartment houses and roads that go clover-leaving around and around and come out everywhere. For Brasilia has no center, no downtown. And all around is the vastness of central Brazil, 575 miles from Rio de Janeira and the sea.

“You can’t meet a friend on a corner because the streets have no comers,” is the common joke. “Your wife can’t go shopping downtown because there is no downtown.” This is Brasilia, a city of 250,000. It is the federal capital built from scratch for the sole purpose of becoming the seat of Brazil’s government. Brasilia is seven years old April 20. It was the dream of then-President Juscelino Kubitschek. It is a city still a-building, and with its share of growing pains.

Brasilia is a city where, by decree of the architects, people will live in glass houses whether they like it or not. Some things just didn’t go right. A 14-story office building juts three and a half feet into a freeway right-of-way because somebody goofed on a survey. Work has stopped on the building while contractors and city authorities argue over who is going to have to move what. Little more than two years ago, there were four-foot anthills in some of the streets. There were fears Brasilia would

end up a ghost town, a vinecovered ruin in the jungle. Now it is bustling with its main business — government and diplomacy. The United States bought and maintains a block of apartment houses for its Embassy personnel. But otherwise, no U.S. aid money was involved in the construction of Brazil’s new capital. There were reports U.S. government “auditors” had descended to Brazilia. U.S. Embassy officials denied them. There is but one industry: PoUtics.

For some time, the politicians resisted Brasilia. Now, they flock here. But on Fridays, the planes are crowded with lawmakers flying to Rio for the weekend. Brasilia is a stodgy town in some ways. There is little nightlife. Brazil’s new president, Arthur Costa e Silva, has announced he will govern from Brasilia, not from Rio. His predecessor, Humberto Castello Branco, spent fewer than 100 j days of a calendar year in the official capital.

Costa e Silva, shortly after taking office in March, orders all his cabinet ministers to move from Rio to Brasilia.

Suit Filed In Big Ship Deal LONDON UPI — Opera diva Maria Callas and shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis Monday sued a one-time friend over a multi-million dollar ship deal. Miss Callas, 43, and Onassis, 61, are suing Panaghis Vergot-

tis, 77, Onassis’ friend for 30 years, for alleged failure to carry out an oral agreement relating to ownership of the $3.36 million ship Artemision. They claim Miss Callas personally invested $168,000 in the deal and should be issued 25 per cent of the shares in the Liberian company owning the ship. Sir Milner Holland, their lawyer, said Vergottis had refused to issue the shares and told Onassis, who telephoned him in London from Paris, that they would have to go to court for their rights.

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