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...speedily for its place in the sun among the great powers of the West. Before the U.S. tries to convert its enemies into friends, let it consolidate its relationship with its real allies and friends. I believe your article did much to help create a better understanding of the Brazilian situation and its young and dynamic President by the U.S. public...
...could only add that Quadros' great popularity among his people is not only due to his championing of their domestic cause but also to his unique Brazilian character. Just as only the United States could have produced Lincoln, only Brazil could have had a Jánio Quadros. With all his quaint eccentricities, he seems to have stepped directly out of a novel by Machado de Assis...
...Brazilian Author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1830-1008) wrote with irony and humor of the Brazilian soul...
...young German officer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After he retired from the Kaiser's army, in 1891, Zeppelin dedicated his life to perfecting giant rigid dirigibles-built around a metal skeleton-that would retain their shape and could be guided. About the same time, a wealthy Brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, developed the nonrigid dirigible and pleased girls by taking them on flights around Paris...
Blood transfusion, he warned, is not only specifically forbidden in the Bible but is unhealthful as well. "Dr. Americo Valeric, a Brazilian doctor and surgeon for over 40 years, agrees: 'Moral insanity, sexual perversions, repression, inferiority complexes, petty crimes-these often follow in the wake of blood transfusion.' " And when Knorr noted that doctors were experimenting with the transfusion of blood from cadavers (TIME, May 26), a horrified groan filled the stadium...