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...Former President Quadros (who arrived at the southern port of Santos yesterday) "has created no great stir," and will probably settle down to being "just another Brazilian...
...that Khrushchev had been the target of an assassination attempt. After a Kremlin spokesman denounced the story as a "provocative lie," L'Unità tried to pin the rumor on Western newsmen. Khrushchev, meanwhile, was relaxing at his Black Sea villa near Sochi and joked with a visiting Brazilian diplomat about the reported attempt on his life...
...heart of the Brazilian argument for condemning but not expelling Castro was legalistic but not uninteresting. The OAS is intrinsically a league of governments committed to representative democracy, said the Brazilian delegate, and "any American state voluntarily departing from such a system breaks its ties of solidarity with the other American states." In other words, having volunteered out, Cuba did not have to be kicked...
Died. Candido Portinari, 58, painter laureate of Brazil who sought to capture his country's garish blend of poverty and promise in giant murals done with a fiery palette mixed from Brazilian earths; of a stroke following cumulative lead poisoning induced by his own pigments; in Rio de Janeiro. An Italian immigrant's son who once painted signs for mule carts, Portinari was the first South American ever given a one-man show by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and, though an avowed Communist for much of his career, accepted commissions for a portrait of former...
...Chicago's Playboy Club, Negro Comedian Dick Gregory has begun to branch out from his basic civil rights themes into such topics as the depletion of U.S. gold reserves. "The average, typical American," he says, "is someone who is sitting in his home right now, sipping Brazilian coffee out of an English cup, eating Swiss cheese. He has Persian rugs on his floor. He probably just got out of his German car after seeing an Italian movie. He's sitting at a foreign-made desk writing his Congressman a letter with a ballpoint pen made in Tokyo, asking...