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...other two were wavering. When Goulart's 1st Infantry Division met the Minas Gerais troops, it promptly switched sides. The outlawed Communist-controlled General Labor Command tried to stage a general strike in Goulart's favor, with only spotty success. Goulart's leftist, Yankee-hating brother-in-law, Congressman Leonel Brizola, tried to mobilize peasant and Gaucho guerrillas he had armed, but they just stayed home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Goodbye to Jango | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

Next morning at Fort Worth's Rose Hill Cemetery, Marina and her two babies, her mother-in-law and her brother-in-law Robert buried Lee Oswald in a plain pine box. Save for a group of newsmen, Secret Service agents and police officers, the rite was unattended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Between Two Fires | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...became radiant over the opportunity to attend a midnight Christmas Mass and to enjoy a glittering tree surrounded by donated gifts. Inside the 20 large boxes were clothes and toys, including 15 dolls for two-year-old June and two-month-old Rachel. Marina visited with her brother-in-law, Robert Oswald, made a brief trip to her husband's grave on the outskirts of Fort Worth, and asked that a simple stone be placed above it. Well-wishers have donated $23,000 to help her rebuild her life, and with grateful sincerity, Marina Oswald could say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women: Three Widows | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...while, Brazil's powerful leftists were pressuring Goulart to replace Pinto with one of their men. Leading candidate for the job: Leonel Brizola, 41, Goulart's rabble-rousing brother-in-law and anti-Yankee federal Deputy. At first Goulart seemed to resist, then to wobble: "I have not asked any person to take part in the Cabinet. But if I did, I would be using an incontestable, legitimate and constitutional right. The people of Rio gave Brizola the greatest vote they have ever given to a Deputy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: On the Edge of the Abyss | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

These haunting bells echo the tension which builds as the film contrasts domestic detail with divine ritual. The scene shifts abruptly from a quarrel between Donamayee's brother-in-law and his wife to the ecstatic faces of the priests. The same woman who, when an affectionate aunt, feeds candy to her little nephew attempts to cure him when a goddess...

Author: By Heather J. Dubrow, | Title: Devi | 12/16/1963 | See Source »

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