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When Brazil's famed Architect Oscar Niemeyer designed the chapel 16 years ago for Belo Horizonte (pop. 650,000), he was inspired by French Poet Paul Claudel's statement: "A church is God's hangar on earth." But to Belo Horizonte's Roman Catholic archbishop, Niemeyer's hangar looked more like the devil's bomb shelter -a parabolic vault of glass and stucco, with an emaciated Christ glaring from a huge fresco by Painter Candido Portinari. Worse, Architect Niemeyer and Painter Portinari were godless Communists. Despite protests by Belo Horizonte's Mayor Juscelino...
...offending his country's politically powerful supernationalists. and his government seemed to be drifting into murky neutralism. But after U.S. Vice President Nixon was stoned in Lima and Caracas, Kubitschek wrote personally to Ike to urge a rebuilding of Pan Americanism. He sponsored an International Investments Conference at Belo Horizonte, accepted resignations of several foot-dragging Cabinet members, replaced them with men dedicated to sensible collaboration with foreign capital...
Niemeyer's first major project of his own was commissioned by the man who was then mayor of Belo Horizonte, Juscelino Kubitschek. The project: Pampulha, a new suburb for Belo Horizonte (pop. 600,000). Says Niemeyer: "Juscelino was a perfect client. He told me what he wanted and gave me complete artistic liberty to carry it out." Projecting Le Corbusier's ideas, Niemeyer combined respect for Brazil's climate, terrain and Latin tempo with his own love for the freeflow form. The curving, tiled lines of the restaurant, the soaring yacht club and casino, the many-arched...
...Call to Politics. Prospering Surgeon Kubitschek became increasingly absorbed in politics as years went by, serving as secretary of the state government and later as a federal deputy. In 1940 the governor of Minas Gerais named him mayor of Belo Horizonte. With that, Kubitschek gave up surgery altogether...
...Faced with the choice between a great Cabinet and Congressional majority, Senhor Kubitschek chose the latter." In at least two key Cabinet posts, however, Kubitschek placed his first choices: as Finance Minister, shrewd Federal Deputy José Maria Alkmin, a loyal friend since the telegraph-office days in Belo Horizonte; as War Minister, General Henrique Teixeira Lott...