Word: branco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chamber of Deputies elected General Humberto Castello Branco, 63, an officer as highly respected for his intellectual ability as his soldiering, to become the new President. For two months the country's three military chiefs of staff will share the same powers as the President under the Institutional Act; after that President Castello Branco holds power alone...
Soldier at the Top. Perhaps the best guarantee against that was Castello Branco, the man chosen as President. Brazilian Social Historian Gilberto Freyre once described him as "a soldier from head to toe, a military man without Prussian arrogance, and one of the greatest Brazilian intellectuals not just in the armed forces but in the entire nation." An up-from-the-ranks infantryman who led Brazilian troops in Italy in World War II, Castello Branco is a lover of good music, reads avidly in four languages, has lived in both France and the U.S., and is reported to have...
...scale. Loyal supporters seeking patronage soon discovered their mistake. "But after all, Mr. President," said one old politico, "where is my place in your government?" Replied Quadros, placing his hand on his breast: "Your place is here, in my heart." Quadros found a more practical place for Carlos Castello Branco, a political reporter whom he grilled for more than two hours on the frailties of 30 top politicians. "Castello, you have a dirty tongue," said Jânio after the grilling. Next day, he hired him as his press chief...
...Presidents rode through a wild, carnival-mood welcome by 750,000 happy cariocas. "Benvindo, Eekee! [Welcome, Ike!]" was heard everywhere. The warm summer air was filled with flower petals and ticker tape (a trick the Brazilians learned from watching U.S. newsreels), and the Ficus trees along Rio Branco Avenue looked like maypoles under their drapery of serpentine and confetti. Music-from God Bless America to Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus, with a strong obbligato of carnival songs and sambas-rang out at every corner. Rio throbbed with happy emotion. "It was even bigger than our welcome for the Brazilian troops...