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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...
First Visitor. All but a handful of Hanoi's 6,000 French merchants pulled out rather than try to do business with the Communists (see BUSINESS). Signs on shutters read: "Closed indefinitely" or "Store for Rent." Boards covered windows of the once-gay cafés fronting on the picturesque little lake in the city center, at whose tables generations of Foreign Legionnaires had drunk and sung and bragged. A few French technicians stayed behind to show the Reds how to run the utilities, and a score or so of European priests and sisters remained...
...President Getulio Vargas' bitter, demagogic suicide letter (TIME, Sept. 6) would bring them a clear-cut victory. But as the returns mounted up, it seemed likely that the No. 1 victor would be a man who was not even a candidate: Vargas' successor, Moderate Conservative President Joao Café Filho, who stood aloof from the pre-election politicking even though the health of his administration was clearly at stake...
...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...
Perhaps because it was so starkly realistic, Café Filho's speech was well received. Vargas' old Finance Minister, Oswaldo Aranha, who had gone along with some of Vargas' measures even though he knew better, commented that the President was "on the track of truth . . . We shall live again in order and equilibrium if this advice is complied with...