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...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...
Cristiano Machado, 57, little-known lawyer from the pivotal state of Minas Gerais, nominee of President Dutra's official Social Democratic Party (P.S.D...
Conferred on General Mark Clarlc, Chief of Army Field Forces, by Brazil's President Eurico Gaspar Dutra: the honorary rank of general in the Brazilian army. Invited to dedicate a new industrial exhibit hall named in his honor in Berlin: General George Marshall, wartime U.S. Army Chief of Staff. Greeted in Berlin by hordes of Germans who pelted him with flowers: Philadelphia Adman Frank Howley, onetime Commandant of the city's U.S. sector...
...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...
...round of entertainments scheduled for his U.S. visit should not weary him. He is not only an indefatigable party-thrower but a devoted partygoer. At a state ball during his visit to Rio two years ago, he made the gesture of leaving with President Dutra at midnight, then returned, removed his presidential sash, and sambaed till dawn...