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Barred by the constitution from succeeding himself. Café Filho has only 14 more months (the remainder of Vargas' term) to apply his remedies. "I am perfectly aware of the time limitation I am up against," he said recently. "And I do not pretend to be a miracle man. What I am trying to do is apply common sense to this job. I am not running for President: I am already President. I do not need to court popularity or votes...
...Café Filho has already shown a magnificent disregard for personal popularity. Determined to plug all possible dollar-exchange leaks, he angered federal Senators and Deputies by canceling their highly prized privilege of bringing a new car into the country every few years. Determined to hold down expenditures, he vetoed a bill to raise the pay of government doctors, stuck to his decision, though the doctors threatened a nationwide strike...
...season (mid-December through mid-March) instead of moving to the 26-mile-distant city of Petropolis, up in the cool mountains, as Brazilian chiefs of state have done since the days of Emperor (1822-31) Pedro I. "This government has no time for a vacation," Café Filho explained...
Tubful for the Dry Day. In a country where moneymaking opportunities knock incessantly at a successful politician's door, Café Filho has conspicuously neglected to get rich. At 55, he has no savings to speak of. no income except his salary.* Instead of moving into the ornate presidential suite in Catete Palace, he continues to live, as he has since 1944, in a middleclass, three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Avenue. Three bedrooms are none too many: the President, his wife Jandira and their only son Eduardo, 11, share the place with Jan-dira...
Like many another building in Rio, the apartment house has running water only every other day, so the President of Brazil has to keep his bathtub filled as a reservoir for the dry days. Says Café Filho: "It was a tremendous disappointment for my neighbors when they realized that living under the same roof as the President did not mean they were going to get water every...