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With Vargas dead and Café Filho barred by the constitution from running for President, two new star performers, both of them state governors, have moved" into the center ring of the Brazilian political circus. Both are spellbinding orators and accomplished platform actors, though their styles are notably different. Buoyant Juscelino Kubitschek, 53, veteran governor of Minas Gerais, dresses well and exudes hearty confidence. São Paulo's shrewd Jânio Quadros, 37, once labeled "the most talented actor in the history...
...Brazilian politics," ostentatiously wears shabby clothes and the sorrowful look of a much-kicked dog. Neither man is in the grip of an ideology; what makes both of them run is the attraction of political office with the Presidency at the end of the track. Kubitschek (TIME, Feb. 21) is a hard-running presidential candidate. Quadros (TIME, Nov. 1) is passing up the race this time, but from the sidelines he has greatly improved Kubitschek's prospects...
...Brazilian constitution requires that state governors who intend to run for President resign at least six months before election day. As the April resignation deadline neared, Jânio Quadros passed the word that he was thinking of running. It was highly doubtful whether Quadros really intended to give up the governorship of Brazil's richest state only six months after his election in order to run a long-shot race for the Presidency, but his cold-blooded bluff panicked the leaders of the Távora alliance. Asked to name his price for staying out, Quadros unblinkingly demanded...
...propaganda success of Brazil's outlawed Communist Party was the slogan O Petróleo é Nosso (The Oil Is Ours). Under that Communist-devised battlecry, Brazilian nationalists have blocked any foreign participation in the development of the nation's oil. A product of the-oil-is-ours nationalism was Brazil's 1953 law, which set up an oil monopoly, Petrobrás, and forbade ownership of shares by foreigners-or even Brazilians married to foreigners...
Currently producing only about 3% of its oil consumption, inflation-plagued Brazil has to pay out much of its desperately needed dollar income for petroleum imports. Many clear-thinking Brazilians, well aware that Petrobras lacks the capital and technical skill to undertake large-scale oil exploration, are convinced that the 1953 law stunts the nation's economic growth. But nationalistic sentiment remains overwhelmingly strong. How strong it still is became evident last week in the Brazilian Senate, which voted on a bill to amend the Petrobras law and permit 30-year oil concessions to private Brazilian firms. The proposal...