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...hold the line against rampaging inflation, Brazil's new President João Café Filho is firmly and conscientiously risking his personal popularity. Earlier this month he vetoed a pay rise for 15,000 doctors who work for the federal government or institutes it sponsors. Last week, as a result, Brazil's doctors threatened a nationwide sitdown strike...
When Mendès himself appeared at the recent Radical-Socialist Party congress, drinking a glass of milk and urging all of the delegates "to do the same thing," he was greeted with roars of laughter. By last week the laughter was abating. Liquor interests, thirsty workmen, café owners, bartenders, home-brewers and, indeed, most of France's hard-drinking population, were mobilizing to combat the threat to their national pastime. They form a large bloc: one Frenchman in seven is involved in the making of wine; alcohol is France's largest industry, grossing some 675 billion...
...kitchen and try them out. The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book is, after all. the work of a lady who can ask (and leave unanswered) the painful question: "If one had the choice of again hearing Pachmann play the two Chopin sonatas or dining once more at the Café Anglais, which would one choose...
...Promise for a Street Cleaner. Scornful of the old Brazilian custom of political favoritism, Café Filho always says no to visitors who ask his help in bypassing laws or civil-service regulations. To a salesman seeking a Foreign Ministry job, he said: "Apply and pass the examinations." A lawyer asked for a special import license. " No, it's against the law," said the President. "But it's always been done," protested the lawyer. "I am here to apply the law and you ask me to break it!" snapped Café Filho. His smile vanished, and his fist...
...example, Mayor Allen Thompson, who refused to lower the assessment on a piece of Hederman property, was bitterly attacked, while a family friend who shot to death two people in a café was able to get the story buried deep inside the paper...