Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil there was one big difference: the first stirring of new hope in a new leader, a man who symbolizes a break with a troubled past and a promise of a brighter today-President Joao Café Filho...
...Little Time. For most of the past quarter-century, Brazil's public life was dominated by the towering figure of Getulio Vargas, a man of flawed greatness who ruled at times as a dictator, at times as a constitutional President, but at all times as the enigmatic, subtle boss of what was essentially a one-man team. Vargas, more than most of his countrymen, dreamed the big dream of Brazil's future, but in the end he failed to cope with the urgent problems of the present. Last August, in the midst of a shattering political crisis, after...
...lacking in any taste for the intricate maneuvers and favoritism of partisan politics. Instead of trying to hold all the administrative strings in his own hands, he has brought teamwork into the government, delegating real authority to his ministers and giving them firm support. Instead of trying to cure Brazil's economic ailments with painkilling expedients, he has adopted a bitter-medicine program of "disinflation" and austerity...
Like many another building in Rio, the apartment house has running water only every other day, so the President of Brazil has to keep his bathtub filled as a reservoir for the dry days. Says Café Filho: "It was a tremendous disappointment for my neighbors when they realized that living under the same roof as the President did not mean they were going to get water every...
Early in life, Joao Café Filho was exposed to influences that were to set him apart from most of his countrymen. Brazil is a Roman Catholic nation, but Joao's parents were devout members of the flock of the Rev. William Porter, a Presbyterian missionary from the U.S. Cafe Filho was baptized in a Presbyterian chapel,* learned to read and write in the free elementary school maintained by Porter and his wife. Joao's first teachers were Henrietta and Evangeline Green, daughters of the U.S. vice consul in Natal...