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...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...
Whether accurate or not, for a few tense days last week the sensational disclosures threatened to topple autocratic old (71) Getulio Vargas from power. Opposition Deputies demanded that Vargas resign. One morning a mob of 2,000 swarmed up the Avenida Rio Branco, shouting: "Down with Vargas," tore down Luthero's campaign posters and overturned and set fire to a campaign car bearing pro-Vargas slogans...
Married. Consuelo ("Conchita") Cintron Verrill, 29, flashy Chilean-American lady bullfighter who developed a unique style beginning with rejoneo (mounted bullfighting) and ending with toreo (foot fighting), has killed 800 bulls in her 13 years in the ring; and Don Francisco Castelo Branco, 32, Portuguese businessman; in Lisbon. After the ceremony, Conchita announced her plans for the future: to quit the ring, settle down and write her memoirs...
...Lisbon, Lady Bullfighter Conchita Cintron declared that she would soon give up the razzle-dazzle of the ring for the tranquillity of marriage. Her future husband, she said, is Dom Francisco Castelo Branco, a government official in Por tuguese East Africa. She plans to marry him by proxy next September...