Fed up with soaring food prices, shrinking pay and government corruption, the people of São Paulo, Brazil's No. 2 city (pop. 2,500,000), rose in wrath last week and repudiated their political bosses. In a municipal election that was supposed to be a rubber-stamping of the government's choice for mayor, they voted 2-to-1 for a rank outsider. Then they launched a wave of sudden strikes that threatened to paralyze the whole metropolis.
What most roused the dull anger of São Paulo's clerks and factory workers was the racking pressure of ten years of rising prices. Despite all the government's promises, food costs...
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