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Economy Begins at Home. "I am going to wield the broom," he promised on inauguration night, "by the handle." Where Kubitschek ran his palace like an open house. Quadros ran it like a Marine barracks. He tossed Kubitschek's luxurious furnishings out of the executive offices, fired the fancy chef (he prefers beef, rice and beans), returned Kubitschek's $8,000 grand piano. "Economy," he said, "begins at home." Aides no longer walked; they ran. Locks barred the presidential doors, and red and green traffic lights informed ministers when to knock, when to wait. In the halls, guards...
Died. Daniel Webster Hoan, 80, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee for 24 years of incorruptible efficiency and unprecedented solvency until his defeat in 1940, when the electorate suddenly saw Red, sought an unneeded new broom; of a stroke; in Milwaukee. A dishwasher who later cooked his way through law school, Dan Hoan was a twangy, shotgun orator who restricted his Marxmanship to Labor Day, indulged in class warfare only in 1919, when he declined to play host to King Albert of the Belgians. "I stand for the man who works," proclaimed the mayor of Milwaukee. "To hell with kings...
Chilly Chancelleries. Partly, the change is the result of great expectations. Hugh Gaitskell, the first important Briton to meet with Kennedy after his election, virtually granted him honorary membership in Britain's Labor Party and returned to London predicting marvelous new things from the new broom in Washington. Visiting the White House in his turn, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan swiftly lost whatever misgivings he had had at parting from Old Friend Dwight Eisenhower and was reportedly convinced that Kennedy "possessed skills in abundance.'' France's lordly Charles de Gaulle hailed Kennedy as his "dear partner...
Flying Squads. Last week some 300 union sympathizers, carrying signs in Spanish, BRACERO, PIDE TU LIBERTAD, staged a sitdown demonstration in front of one bracero camp to prevent the workers from going to the fields. At another camp, 38 pickets beat up the camp cook and two braceros with broom handles, threatened to set fire to the camp. The melee was broken up by a flying squad from the sheriff's office, which later stormed into a meeting at union headquarters and arrested six union leaders. Armed with shotguns and pistols, growers prowled their fields on the lookout...
Given the stubborn resistance of caste to the most enlightened attempts at reform, few foreigners or Indians looked for an overnight revolution. But the Calcutta Municipal Corp. promised to equip its 2,000 sweepers with the new brooms, and New Delhi's Chief Sanitary Inspector Partap Singh personally called at the U.S. embassy to borrow a sample broom to be used in inviting bids from manufacturers...