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...situation changed abruptly. In the turbulent presidential election, Governor Getulio Vargas of Rio Grande do Sul was defeated by Julio Prestes, a protégé of the incumbent President, bumbling, liberal Washington Luiz. Flanked by fellow gaúcho Oswaldo Aranha and the swashbuckling General Pedro Aurelio de Góes Monteiro, Vargas marched triumphantly on Rio. The army-including Lieut. Colonel Eurico Caspar Dutra-recognized the popular strength of Vargas' movement and backed...
Nelson Rockefeller, Oswaldo Aranha, former president of the United Nations, and Richard M. Bissell, Jr. of the U. S. Economic Cooperation Administration were among the speakers in this group...
...wives, dressed in everything from purple voile to tweeds, seemed positively dowdy to Rio, where the "New Look" has swept skirts down almost to the ankle. In the big Municipal Theater, delegates and wives gathered with some 6,000 other Rotarians from 37 countries, listened to Senior Statesman Oswaldo Aranha address them in Portuguese. "I can just feel what he's saying," gushed a Rotary wife...
...Future. What next for Aranha? Certainly not rest, or sleep (he thinks more than five hours a night is barbarous). Politics? Probably. From 1930, when he plotted Revolutionist Getulio Vargas into power, until 1944, when he nimbly jumped from the dictatorial train before it crashed, Aranha has turned his brain and famous smile to practically every important task that Brazilian public life offers. Only the presidency escaped him. For that, in 1951, his feverish admirers now thump...
...Aranha, now 53, holds some powerful cards. His own opposition National Democratic Union Party sees him as a natural; President Dutra and the government respect his work at U.N. But talkative Aranha cagily refuses to say a word about the presidency. "It is like being advertised as the star of a football match," he says warily. "You may be destroyed before the end of the game...