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...line for the presidency after Jânio Quadros' abrupt resignation last August, Goulart was the object of grave apprehension both in Brazil and in the U.S. Brazil's anti-communist politicians and military men distrusted him to the point where they brought Brazil to the brink of civil war before a parliamentary system was devised to limit his powers as President. To make matters worse, Brazil, which the U.S. hoped to make a cornerstone of the Alli ance for Progress, was in economic chaos; financial mismanagement had produced a zooming cost of living, a runaway currency...
...recruit its regular faculty of 240 (three-quarters with Ph.D.s), Brandeis scoured the U.S. for bright young scholars on the brink of recognition. It paid well; full professors now get salaries as high as $16,000 a year, and 39 endowed chairs are even better upholstered...
...unworthy investment to the Alliance for Progress. Where the notions came from it is easy to see. The wire services in particular have made far too much of a Governor's expropriation of a branch of the IT & T; they have said that Brazil's Northeast is on the brink of revolution. A recent article in the New Republic, besides stating that former President Kubtischek had swindled Brazil out of several million dollars, called its present and potential leaders fools, knaves, and monomaniacs. All this has understandably made U.S. businessmen suspicious and Brazilian officials extremely angry...
Today, for the first time since Daia, Algeria again stands on the brink of nationhood-and again the event was preceded by waves of blood...
...made a fortune after the war in depreciated bonds of the Baltimore Transit Co., saw the huge-and often overlooked-profit potentials in city transit. He bought heavily into the Scranton Transit Co., then got control as its receiver after an eight-month strike drove it to the brink of bankruptcy. Typically...