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Perhaps his greatest gift is his awesome energy. No matter how late he stays up at night, he gets to his office at 7 a.m. As mayor of Belo Horizonte and later as governor of his home state of Minas Gerais, he undertook extensive public-works programs-and carried them out. "What I start, I finish," he says...
After a few years, even cut-rate fees proved too costly for Júlia's pinched purse, and Juscelino had to leave school. At 18, having taught himself Morse code, he qualified as an operator in the Minas Gerais state telegraph system. He left home for Belo Horizonte, the state capital, with one spare shirt and a roast chicken. During the months he had to wait for an opening, he lived largely on bread...
Beyond the Horizon. The future President worked as a telegraph operator in Belo Horizonte for seven years, putting himself through preparatory schools and medical school. On the job from midnight to 7 a.m., he started classes at 8 a.m., snatched a few hours of sleep in the afternoon. He got his M.D. (cum laude) at 26, resigned his telegrapher's job the same day. Meanwhile, his sister Maria had married a prosperous Belo Horizonte surgeon, who made Kubitschek his assistant. A year later, bitten by wanderlust, Kubitschek borrowed money from rich friends and took off for Europe-supposedly...
Returning to Belo Horizonte broadened and polished by travel, he married the pretty, dark-eyed daughter of a wealthy politician. The marriage was happy. "He has not always been a perfect husband.'' Sarah Kubitschek said secretly. "But after all. perfection is dull." The Kubitscheks have two children. Márcia and Maristela, both twelve. Márcia was born to them; they adopted Maristela five years later, to spare Márcia an only child's loneliness...
Rejuvenating as Juscelino's shot-in-the-arm may be for the rundown economy of his whole state, its most startling results strike the eye in Minas' young capital city of Belo Horizonte. It was laid out just 60 years ago as a Washington-like model city on one of the mountainous state's few relatively level patches of land. Now Belo Horizonte is a booming metropolis of more than 400,000, the hub of Juscelino's net of roads and power lines. Its population has doubled in a decade. Beside its 100-ft.-wide streets...