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Candidate Barros campaigned with flamboyant confidence, proclaimed himself the next Brazilian President (by law, President Joâo Café Filho cannot succeed himself), and offered a 1,000,000-cruzeiro ($55,000) reward to anyone who could prove him a thief. Taking a broom as his campaign's cleanup symbol, Quadros appealed to the downtrodden with such rabble-rousing slogans as "War on the Corrupt Rich!" It was a close race, undecided until last week; Jânio's margin was a mere 18,304 votes out of nearly 2,000,000 cast. Promised...
...slump in U.S. buying (down 50% from last year to 2,000,000 sacks for the July-September quarter), may prompt economic retaliation against the U.S. In three months Brazil's monthly dollar surplus has tumbled from $40 to $14 million, forced President João Café Filho to consider import curbs on U.S. products...
...pattern of results was reassuring for Western Hemisphere stability: with minor local exceptions, the voting was peaceful and orderly, and moderates and anti-Communists did better with the voters than extremists of either the left or right wing. The big winners: ¶ Brazil's conservative President Joao Cafe Filho, though not on any ballot, significantly bested the politically potent ghost of the late President Getulio Vargas. After Vargas' suicide in August, ultra-nationalists and Communists rallied around congressional candidates running in Vargas' name; pro-U.S. moderates backed Cafe Filho. But not even Vargas' rabble-rousing...
...Vargas' bitter, demagogic suicide letter (TIME, Sept. 6) would bring them a clear-cut victory. But as the returns mounted up, it seemed likely that the No. 1 victor would be a man who was not even a candidate: Vargas' successor, Moderate Conservative President Joao Café Filho, who stood aloof from the pre-election politicking even though the health of his administration was clearly at stake...
...Filho must have a right-and-center majority in Congress to carry out his middle-of-the-road reform program for the remaining 15 months of his term. At week's end, it appeared that-despite Getulio Vargas' emotional farewell ("To the wrath of my enemies I leave the legacy of my death")-the voters had given Café Filho what he needed...