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...opposition to Kubitschek stemmed mainly from distrust of the late President Getulio Vargas, who committed suicide last August after the generals had warned him to resign in order to resolve a growing administrative scandal. The generals are determined that the next President of Brazil shall be, like Café Filho, a man unstained by the Vargas regime's mar de lama (sea of mud). As the military sees it, Kubitschek is linked to the old Vargas camp...
...trouble now with his own boys (TIME, Jan. 3). I don't think anybody likes him very much. Since Stalin's death we have seen him going back toward Moscow." Returning to Rio de Janeiro after inaugurating a big power project, Brazil's witty President Café Filho (TIME, Dec. 6) stopped off for a look at a cocoa plantation and suddenly found himself hotfooting it across a field just a few horn's-breadths ahead of a bull that had escaped from a pen. No matador, Café Filho, with aides puffing along...
...report on the Social Registerites. But they also print all the announcements they have room for about the engagements, weddings, births, parties, etc.. of others who are "eligible in terms of their respectability, accomplishment and educational background." For the other papers, society is a mixture of Social Registerites, café society and stage, screen and other entertainers...
WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING is planned in Brussels for the 1958 World's Fair. Belgian Cabinet has just approved plans for a 2,034-ft. tower (340 feet taller than Manhattan's Empire State Building) to house TV studios, exposition halls, and café. Cost: about $20 million...
...graveyard of wrecked jeeps, trucks and armored vehicles. Swill and offal clog the canal that cuts through the main shopping center, and along its banks people gather in family clusters to bathe, brush their teeth, defecate or wash clothes. Hideously deformed beggars swarm the approaches to even the humblest caf...