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...last December, Kubitschek was running for President so energetically that Brazil's top-ranking military chiefs sent President Joao Cafe Filho a memorandum calling for "a solution to the problem of presidential succession on a basis of understanding and interparty cooperation." Translated from the officialese, the message meant that the generals and admirals wanted the right and center parties to put up a joint candidate to swamp Kubitschek...
...opposition to Kubitschek stemmed mainly from distrust of the late President Getulio Vargas, who committed suicide last August after the generals had warned him to resign in order to resolve a growing administrative scandal. The generals are determined that the next President of Brazil shall be, like Café Filho, a man unstained by the Vargas regime's mar de lama (sea of mud). As the military sees it, Kubitschek is linked to the old Vargas camp...
...with his own boys (TIME, Jan. 3). I don't think anybody likes him very much. Since Stalin's death we have seen him going back toward Moscow." Returning to Rio de Janeiro after inaugurating a big power project, Brazil's witty President Café Filho (TIME, Dec. 6) stopped off for a look at a cocoa plantation and suddenly found himself hotfooting it across a field just a few horn's-breadths ahead of a bull that had escaped from a pen. No matador, Café Filho, with aides puffing along in his wake...
...path to politics, as the law was in the 19th. The century's most famous journalist-politicians are Clemenceau, Churchill, Lenin and Mussolini. Some others: Italy's Alcide de Gasperi, Texas' Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ohio's Warren Harding, Brazil's President Café Filho, Britain's Richard Grossman, Illinois' Frank Knox, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Blair Moody, Washington state's Warren Magnuson, South Dakota's Francis Case, Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, Idaho's Henry Dworshak, Louisiana's Edward Hebert, and Tennessee's Brazilla Carroll Reece...
...days after the strike's end, a special joint session of Congress met to consider Cafe Filho's veto. In wage-conscious Rio, not one Congressman was bold enough to speak in the President's defense, but when the debate ended, the vote in favor of the wage-raise bill (124-120) fell far short of the needed two-thirds majority, and the President's veto stood...