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...press gave him a lusty welcome. Said Correio da Manhá: "The American continent cannot survive while one part is strong and prosperous and the other poor and weak. Nelson Rockefeller was one of the first to realize this truth." In a front-page editorial entitled simply "Nelson," Diario da Noite said: "He returns to encourage the development of our land resources in the generous and disinterested desire to improve the lot of the great masses of Latin America...
...fine. But João's mother sobbed and bystanders growled as the boy collapsed on seeing Portuguese justice open a prison cell instead of a hospital ward. The Portuguese press rarely murmurs against the order Salazar has maintained for 14 years, but last week the Lisbon Diario de Lisboa reported João's case with obvious sympathy...
...loosed a popular hue & cry. Said Rio's Diario Carioca: "The poor were seized with panic, since it cut off their only convenient, practical, inexpensive way to care for their health." Tongue-in-cheek Columnist Rubem Braga, in Diretrizes, suggested "installation of public injection centers, thus permitting the formation of long queues which could join with all the other queues into which the population has been marshaled...
Chronic work-shys at once cleared out of the capital. Even when some crept back, the average cop hardly broke a leg to nab a candidate. Most Uruguayans had forgotten all about the scheme when last week Montevideo's alert El Diario turned up the fact that their hobo college, with a staff of 46, had shrunk to six scholars. Hurriedly the police began beating the boondocks for prospective pupils...
...come to an end in Latin America's biggest country. Getulio Vargas, the man who introduced modern authoritarianism to Brazil and the New World 15 years ago, was out of the Presidency. And it had all happened with remarkably little fuss. Said Rio de Janeiro's Diario de Noticias: "The abdication was as easy as rotten fruit dropping off a tree...