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Cold or Cancer? A mercurial, wisecracking autocrat who seems less like a hero than an inspired eccentric to most of his countrymen, Kassem brays nonetheless that he is "a man England won't be able to beat." He explained: "The British planned to get all the Arabs against me as the aggressor. But, instead, I have united all the Arabs against imperialism. The Arab peoples are already with us. Soon the Arab governments will also be with...
...loud raspberry. Paris' tart-tongued France-Soir compares him to "Marx-not Karl, but Harpo." Yet Brazil's common man calls him "messiah," "the savior," "the healer of our ills." As Quadros flogs his nation along his chosen path, other voices can be heard calling him "paranoiac," "autocrat," "dictator." Rio's Governor Carlos Lacerda, formerly a Quadros supporter, now a bitter critic, once termed him "the most changeable, the most mercurial, the most perfidious of all men ever to emerge in Brazil's public affairs...
...bulky, affectionate six-footer with a touch of the autocrat, he refused to allow his students to draw a scene and then fill it in with paint. He insisted that they see not shapes and forms but areas of color: if the color was right, all else would follow. "Think of color instead of sand. Think of color instead of clothes. Color first and house after, not house first and color after," he said. Last week his most famous student, Edwin Dickinson, recalled: "More than anyone else, Hawthorne appreciated the fact that plane relationships are better expressed through comparative values...
...strips" and "boob of the radio and TV serials," the American father. Said Adlai, father of three and grandfather of three: "Life with father seems to have degenerated into a continuous sequence of disrespect, or tolerance at best . . . Even though we don't want him to be the autocrat of the breakfast table, I think we might consider giving him at least a polite seat at the table." Earlier in the week, Adlai received a more noteworthy tribute from ex-Senator Herbert H. Lehman, who announced the creation of an Adlai E. Stevenson Foundation to provide scholarships...
...rule of Portugal. He confronted growing unrest at home, bloody rebellion in his big African colony of Angola, found few sympathetic world allies anywhere except in South Africa. But in his first interview in five years (to Brazil's 0 Cruzeiro Correspondent Mario de Moraes) the old autocrat was as acid and abrasive as ever...