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BELMONT PARK, Elmont. N. Y.- Pedro Baptista and Canonero II, his Venezuelan wonder horse, double-handedly drew a crowd of well wishers. They have made the modest little stall 109B a red-hot tourist attraction for trippers from all over who dig the idea of a Triple Crown winner...
...paradoxes, homonyms, palindromes, anagrams, acronyms and acrostics, all of which require something more than a smidgin of esoteric knowledge. Explain this, he commands reading the same backward as forward - it is the short title of a dramat ic monologue, written in the late 1800s by a Portuguese eccentric named Baptista Machado...
Twelve million Brazilian voters next week will choose one of two conservatives -São Paulo's former Governor Jânio Quadros, 43, or retired Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 65-as President of Brazil. Such are the ground rules of Brazilian politics that hardly a voter will realize that he is casting his ballot for a conservative; ever since the campaign began early this year, each camp has spent close to $5,000,000 convincing Brazil that its man is an ardent leftist, a welfare statist and a Brazil-firster...
...presidential election, the most important political event of the year in Latin America, will pit a stone-spined old soldier with a leftwing, nationalist program against a fiery-eyed spellbinder whose platform is austere conservatism. One afternoon last week the old soldier, Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 65, resigned as War Minister in order "to go into the arena with no privileges or priorities." Then the red-cheeked descendant of Dutch-English immigrants slipped into mufti in an adjoining room, walked out to a waiting Jeep, and drove off through popping firecrackers and a cheering crowd...
Brazil's presidential election is still 14 months away but, as in the U.S., candidates are running and interest is high. In Rio de Janeiro last week, Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott. 64, the Minister of War and standard bearer for President Juscelino Kubitschek's Social Democrats, hopped on the stump and drew howls from the opposition. Though the old soldier had just arrested a colonel for getting into politics, he himself appeared in uniform and armpit-deep in medals. The opposition wailed again when Kubitschek handed the powerful Ministries of Public Works and Justice-Interior...