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First he kept everyone guessing. Every day, from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m., Goulart's futuristic presidential palace at Brasília was besieged by Congressmen, Senators, governors, labor leaders, industrialists, generals, and special pleaders of every stripe and shape. To each delegation, Goulart, always smiling, gave his "full support." He was, he said, intending to create a "homogeneous" Cabinet of kindred spirits dedicated to his three-year stabilization plan. Plane traffic in and out of Brasília was so heavy that the country's four major airlines set up temporary counters in the lobby...
Silence Preferred. In the view of Kubitschek, who ran up a huge deficit in Brazil to build his beloved back-country capital, Brasília, the U.S. is to blame for not delivering as much aid as it seemed to have promised. "It would have been better to have had silence," said he, "than to have spread seeds of hope that will never grow and bear fruit." As presently constituted, Kubitschek went on, the Alliance is little more than a label. "I protest against using the name Alianza as a label for projects of all sorts, some of which...
Couve arrived an hour late for the start of the meeting at Quatre Bras, the modern Foreign Ministry building. Newsmen's questions to him died in the air at the grim set of the Frenchman's face. A path two feet wide miraculously parted the crowd and like an apparition-or a leper-Couve moved unmolested to the elevator...
...Common Market. In Brussels, even as De Gaulle was addressing a press conference in Paris, the Common Market's presiding minister, Belgium's Henri Fayat, gracefully welcomed the British delegation to the conference room in the new aluminum and concrete Foreign Ministry building on the Quatre Bras.* With equal good will, Britain's Chief Delegate Edward Heath replied, "I think the time has come for a true reconciliation...
...Brummel Ties, Inc., which has sales of $4,000,000 and is the only moneymaker Kittay ever bought. Next came Mullins Mills and County Mills, which together sell $20 million in knitted outerwear. Two months ago, Kittay moved into women's undergarments, bought Flexees International, which makes girdles, bras and swim suits. Using prudent aggression, Kittay hopes eventually to lift B.V.D. to first place from its present fourth place in men's underwear, behind Fruit of the Loom, Cooper's and Hanes. For next to nothing else, Sol Kittay likes B.V.D. best...