Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Natal boys. One of them is now a federal Senator, another the president of an insurance company, the third, Manuel Leopoldino, is a streetcar motorman in Rio. A fortnight ago, Leopoldino, wearing his navy blue motor-man's uniform, went to visit the President at Catete Palace. Cafe Filho recognized him at once, embraced him warmly. "Can I help you in any way, Manuel?" he asked. "No thanks, Joao," said the motorman. "I just wanted to see you. I like my job. It's steady work. Another five years and I'll retire with a pension...
...started a shoestring paper of his own, O Jornál do Norte. Other papers in northeast Brazil were soon reprinting his fire-eating denunciations of corruption. One day a Natal politician whom he had brickbatted came in and laid a large banknote on his desk; Cafe Filho scornfully touched a match to the bill, used it to light a cigarette. At 27 Café Filho ran for the federal Chamber of Deputies. He got a majority, but his opponent contested the election, and the Chamber cynically threw out Café Filho's claim. Advised an elderly Deputy...
White Magic. Brazil's top men are convinced that the way out, the economic road to the wealth and eminence Brazilians envision for their nation, is industrialization. The postwar manufacturing boom is only a beginning. Before industrial growth can proceed much further, as Cafe Filho and his economic advisers see it, the administration will have to slow galloping inflation to a walk. Because of inflation, much of Brazil's short supply of investment capital runs into real-estate speculation, or takes flight into dollar hoards. Too little capital is available for what Cafe Filho's Finance Minister...
...administration can do little about nationalism except refrain from encouraging it. The administration's common-sense policy on the Petrobras oil law is to let it stand until nationalistic sentiment subsides, and get as much foreign participation in oil development as the law's loopholes permit. Explains Cafe Filho laconically: "The problem now is not to change the law, but to interpret...
...Road to Tomorrow. Even more important for Brazil in the long run than Cafe Filho's economic program is the educational effect of his own character and his new kind of administration. Besides providing a conspicuous personal example of candor and integrity, Café Filho is giving Brazil a government that is opposed to nationalism and favoritism, that is trying to work out the country's problems instead of conjuring them away. Said a member of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies: "Café Filho is setting a much-needed example. He is proving that an honest...