Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty but sad-eyed teen-age girl hobbled on crutches into the office of the President of Brazil one day last week. President Joāo Café Filho greeted her with a smile, pointed to a chair beside his ornate jacaranda-wood desk. Lucilla Carvalho sat down and told her story. Her leg had been amputated in an effort to halt cancer, and doctors had told her she would die unless she went to the U.S. for treatment. Could the President help...
Sympathy for a Poetess. Lucilla was one of more than 100 visitors who streamed into the President's office that day. Keeping up a practice he began while he was Brazil's Vice President. Café Filho opens his door to the public one day every week. Any Brazilian who wants to talk to the President simply goes to Cattete Palace in Rio and writes his name and address in a book. When his name comes up, a presidential aide summons him to the palace by telegram...
Candidate Barros campaigned with flamboyant confidence, proclaimed himself the next Brazilian President (by law, President Joâo Café Filho cannot succeed himself), and offered a 1,000,000-cruzeiro ($55,000) reward to anyone who could prove him a thief. Taking a broom as his campaign's cleanup symbol, Quadros appealed to the downtrodden with such rabble-rousing slogans as "War on the Corrupt Rich!" It was a close race, undecided until last week; Jânio's margin was a mere 18,304 votes out of nearly 2,000,000 cast. Promised...
...slump in U.S. buying (down 50% from last year to 2,000,000 sacks for the July-September quarter), may prompt economic retaliation against the U.S. In three months Brazil's monthly dollar surplus has tumbled from $40 to $14 million, forced President João Café Filho to consider import curbs on U.S. products...
...Café Filho must have a right-and-center majority in Congress to carry out his middle-of-the-road reform program for the remaining 15 months of his term. At week's end, it appeared that-despite Getulio Vargas' emotional farewell ("To the wrath of my enemies I leave the legacy of my death")-the voters had given Café Filho what he needed...