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Hiqh-Button Boots. The son of the bailiff of a large farm in the Santa Comba Dão country of central Portugal, Salazar studied for a law degree at the University of Coimbra and stayed on to become a professor of economics and finance. In 1928 he became Finance Minister with extremely broad powers to control the economy and government as well, but he still looked like a provincial schoolteacher in his bowler hat and high-button boots...
...Salazar himself, still partially paralyzed and suffering from seriously impaired speech and perception, is not yet aware that he was replaced as Premier. For his homecoming, the stricken old statesman needed only one piece of luggage: an ancient suitcase, which he is said to have carried when he entered Coimbra University as a student nearly 60 years...
...sunny Maria da Fe, 24, who sings such classics as It's as Empty and Cold as My Heart to a sizzling jazz beat. Pop fado has also given rise to such variations as the upbeat "new-look fado" and "fado blues." And at the University of Coimbra, the students have turned their romantic ballads into protest songs, at least one of which was virulent enough to be banned by the government...
...Orfeon Chorus of Coimbra, Portugal, on its first tour of the U.S., will present a concert in Rindge Tech Auditorium tomorrow evening...
...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Sullivan's trip to Portugal, first shown in March 1959, covers the country from the university city of Coimbra to the fish wharves of Nazaré. Much of the talent is Portuguese, plus such inexact descendants of Vasco da Gama as Maurice Chevalier...