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...delights in the domestic confusions and job hazards of a composite American male who is made up of equal parts Caspar Milquetoast and Mr. Blandings...
...Caspar Blandingses in a real jam can always be sure they'll find Ogden Nash coming to their defense in rubber-legged rhyme...
...hemisphere's biggest republic was winding up its biggest election campaign. Fifty thousand candidates, campaigning on at least 14 party tickets for 18,000 offices, wooed the votes of 11 million electors. In the main fight, the contest for successor to President Eurico Caspar Dutra, no one would predict the winner. With election day a week away, three top presidential candidates were running neck & neck.*The three...
...President Eurico Caspar Dutra (who may not succeed himself), the Social Democrats (PSD) had nominated short, affable Federal Deputy Cristiano Machado, 56. An engineer by training, Machado's main qualifications were that he came from politically pivotal Minas Gerais and that he had practically no enemies. Outside his home state, he was almost unknown. The conservative National Democratic Union (UDN) had also made its choice: Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, 54, hero of an unsuccessful 1922 uprising and the man whom Dutra beat...
With President Eurico Caspar Dutra's support, a provision was written into the 1946 constitution setting aside 1% of all national revenues for development of the valley for 20 years. Since then, Dutra's enthusiasm for the project has become almost an obsession...