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Vargas & the Workers. Such moderate talk sounded odd from a man. now 44, who learned his politics at the feet of Getulio Vargas, Brazil's master demagogue. In the middle 19405, Goulart marked himself as a man to watch in the Brazilian Labor Party. As Vargas' Labor Minister in 1953, Goulart spent his time approving one wage boost after another. Finally, when he proposed a 100% wage hike for all workers, conservatives complained so strongly that Vargas fired...
...press conference last week, President Kennedy bluntly outlined the situation in Brazil: "almost unprecedented" inflation, boosting the cost of living 50% within a year, causing "the most severe dislocations. I think that the Brazilian government is aware of the strong concern that we have for this inflation, which eats up our aid and which, of course, contributes to a flight of capital and therefore diminishes rather than increases the stability of the state...
...kidnaped in 1911 by an Italian fanatic and was missing for two years; then her left elbow was chipped by a stone-throwing Brazilian. In recent years she has resided safely and quietly in Paris, well cared for by doting Frenchmen, who used to value her at $10 million, now insure her for $100 million and really think she is priceless. Just the same, if high-level negotiations work out the details for her comfort, Leonardo da Vinci's enigmatic Mona Lisa will leave the Louvre next year for her first visit to the U.S. to tour the National...
Teresa Berganza, the young Spanish mezzo-soprano, carried on this tradition in particularly disheartening fashion last Thursday night, filling the entire second half of her recital with a remarkably undistinguished lot of songs by Granados, de Falla, Montsalvatge, and the Brazilian Villa-Lobos. There were cradle-songs and tormented Flamenco--like songs, and two or three varities of that hardy perennial of the concert platform, the "delightful" song about a timid or a talkative lover, which ends with an exasperated little yelp from the singer (and polite titters from the old ladies in the audience). On a balmy night...
From the ripening sunshine of Brazilian spring, Edward Mortimer Gilbert, 38, flew home last week to weather the wintry discontent of U.S. justice. He seemed to be charged with everything except starting the Korean war: 15 federal fraud charges of, among other things, making a false SEC report and misappropriating $1,953,000 of the funds of the E. L. Bruce Co., Inc., the lumber milling giant that he had bossed before fleeing last June; twelve New York State charges of grand larceny; a U.S. tax lien amounting to $3,500,000. The erstwhile timber wolf of Wall Street faced...