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Married. Marcia Kubitschek, 20, comely daughter of former (1956-61) Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek, 50, who fathered the $600 million inland capital of Brasilia but ran afoul of the country's new revolutionary government, which recently stripped him of all political rights for ten years; and Baldomero Barbara Neto, 25, son of a wealthy Brazilian industrialist; in Lisbon...
...Kubitschek raised farm and livestock output 37.9%, steel production 100%, aluminum production tenfold, oil production fifteenfold; he built the auto industry from scratch toward its present level of 174,000 units a year, added thousands of miles of roads and the new $600 million inland capital of Brasilia. But he also touched off an inflationary spiral and made many enemies with his damn-the-cost drive. After he left office, rumors of corruption constantly swirled around his administration; so far, however, there has been no proof...
...disclosed plans for a new parliamentary center on the Rhine, consisting of a 25-story office building for Deputies, a twelve-story hotel and an 18-story press center, as well as a series of bridges across the railroad tracks. Bonn's burghers protested that Gerstenmaier's "Brasilia," as the stuffy Rheinische Post dubbed it, would occupy their best recreational land. The program has been postponed for years, since the government has always clung to the belief that by putting up permanent buildings in a "provisional" capital it might weaken its claim that Berlin and the rest...
...Satchel of Money. Goulart's real wealth may never be known. The investigators hesitate even to make an estimate. They do know that on the night of the revolution, several large canvas bags were loaded into the plane that flew him south from Brasilia. The contents of at least one of the bags was U.S. currency...
Barely two days after Goulart fled to exile in Uruguay, an army colonel strode into the Congress in Brasilia with a message from the war ministry in Rio. His superiors, he informed congressional leaders, demanded a thoroughgoing purge, suspending the political rights and immunities of Congressmen suspected of being Communists, leftists or subversives. When Congress balked, the three military chiefs of staff simply decreed it. In an "Institutional Act," they set the hard ground rules under which the country will be administered until free elections are held in 1965 and a popularly elected President is inaugurated. Effective until...