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...claimant was Joao Cafe Filho. who went on sick leave early in November when he suffered a mild heart attack. During his illness he was succeeded, in rapid order, by 1) Chamber of Deputies Speaker Carlos Luz. who was promptly ousted by Teixeira Lott on suspicion of favoring the golpistas, and 2) Senate President Nereu Ramos, no golpista. After Luz meekly accepted his dismissal, Cafe Filho suddenly decided that he felt well enough to take over again. Last week Teixeira Lott called on him at a Rio nursing home, hinted that the army might let him return if he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: What, Another Coup? | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

When Cafe Filho. looking gay and nimble, moved back to his apartment near Copacabana Beach that afternoon, army troops and red-capped riot police surrounded the building, keeping him under what amounted to house arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: What, Another Coup? | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...began to simmer a fortnight ago, involving Lott's right to discipline an outspoken golpista army colonel. This dispute turned into a decisive test of strength between Lott and the golpe faction. In the midst of the crisis, a heart attack flattened President Joāo Café Filho, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Luz, took over as Brazil's Acting President. Luz, suspected of being a golpista, ruled against War Minster Lott in the affair of the loose-lipped colonel. Lott resigned, and Luz promptly named a golpista general as War Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Preventive Revolution | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...urgency and dedication of her appeal took the city by storm. Newspapers named her the "Fiancée of Death" and called her story the "Second Song of Bernadete." President Café Filho made a personal visit to promise the government's "moral and material support." And Marta Rocha, runner-up in the 1954 Miss Universe contest and honored symbol of Brazilian beauty, went to see the dark-haired girl, wept, and next day broadcast an appeal for funds to build the "Hospital of Bernadete" for care of cancer victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Miracle of Bernadete | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...spend for ballots and more effective methods of distributing them. Last week, in the record time of 15 minutes, the Senate unanimously passed a bill requiring the use of uniform ballots listing all candidates. Three minutes after the measure landed on his desk, President João Café Filho signed it into law. Reason for the haste: military leaders had demanded ballot reform, and the politicos wanted to avoid giving them any excuse to intervene in the presidential election scheduled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Uniform Ballot | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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