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...state of Rio Grande do Sul, Jango laid proper claim to the Presidency. In doing so, he had the backing of nearly every civilian leader in Brazil, whatever their misgivings. The solution was the inauguration of Goulart as President, but under a new constitutional amendment making him a figurehead in a parliamentary system controlled by a Prime Minister...
...dictation under the eyes of John Trumbull's Portrait of Alexander Hamilton, while another types letters near some floating rectangles by Mark Rothko. A client, his mind a mass of figures, hustles past a superb African sculpture and suddenly finds himself confronting an 18th century ship's figurehead standing next to an abstraction by Joan Mitchell. Here and there a Charles Burchfield or an Andrew Wyeth appears; there is a convulsed semi-abstraction by Larry Rivers, a grisly head by Leon Golub, a surrealist landscape by Kay Sage, a calligraphic work by Mathieu and splashy one by Adolph...
...broad-based coalition government." The way things were going back home, one diplomat cracked, "Boun Oum will be lucky to get the Education Ministry." After two days, about the only thing the princes could get together on was that they would keep amiable King Savang Vatthana as a figurehead monarch. "The King is sacred to us," said the Red Prince piously...
What will come next in the Dominican Republic, no one can say. The ranks of the politically able, thinned by assassination, limit the possibilities somewhat; but anything from invasion by Cubans to further repression by the Trujillo dynasty might happen. Figurehead president and without the ruthlessness of Trujillo, his playboy son will probably not be able to resist the wave of rebellion which has been sweeping Latin American dictatorships...
...bold economic plans made little progress. Heedless of the damage they were doing to South Korea's frail democracy, politicians selfishly fought for personal gain. Seoul's irresponsible newspapers exulted in their new freedom by jabbing at Premier Chang on every issue. President Posun Yun, supposedly a figurehead outside the political maelstrom, sniped openly at the struggling Premier...