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...arrival was further complicated by Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek, who had received a false report that Ike's plane would be delayed. Kubitschek made a breathless appearance 14 minutes after the Air Force One had landed, and not until then did Ike emerge from his plane, but with complete decorum and a friendly pat ("I understand perfectly") for Kubitschek...
...picture-book welcome. At Galeao Airport, the peripatetic President boarded a white-hulled launch for the ceremonial trip across the beautiful harbor to the city. As his launch passed a line of 14 freshly painted naval vessels,* the crews raised their white caps high and gave a traditional Brazilian navy greeting-seven "Vivas." An informal flotilla of small craft trailed in Ike's wake, a swarm of helicopters chop-chopped overhead, and along the seawall a long formation of white-uniformed sailors and officers stood under the blooming mimosa trees, at rigid attention...
...open White House Lincoln (flown from Washington for the occasion). Together the two Presidents rode through a wild, carnival-mood welcome by 750,000 happy cariocas. "Benvindo, Eekee! [Welcome, Ike!]" was heard everywhere. The warm summer air was filled with flower petals and ticker tape (a trick the Brazilians learned from watching U.S. newsreels), and the Ficus trees along Rio Branco Avenue looked like maypoles under their drapery of serpentine and confetti. Music-from God Bless America to Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus, with a strong obbligato of carnival songs and sambas-rang out at every corner. Rio throbbed with...
After lunch and a brief rest at the U.S. embassy, Ike drove to the Brazilian Congress to deliver an eloquent and forceful address that was interrupted by 27 bursts of applause, three standing ovations. Brazil's mutual-assistance plan for Latin American development-Operation...
...military version of the four-engined DC-6) and a twin-engined Real Airlines (Brazilian) DC3-collided as both were circling to land. The Brazilian plane knifed through the Navy transport, cutting it in two and spilling bodies and debris out of the clouds into the water. Aboard the U.S. plane, on their way to Rio to play for Presidents Eisenhower and Kubitschek, were 23 members of the famed Navy Band. All were killed. Out of a total of 64 aboard the two planes, there were just three survivors-all U.S. Navymen who were riding in the shorn tail section...