Word: getulio
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...rivals French Actor Fernandel's in expanse. He loves society parties, especially if there is dancing. Tangos and slow foxtrots are his favorites, but he can samba with the lightest-footed-showing a distinct preference for pretty partners. At a ball a few years ago, the late President Getulio Vargas jokingly asked Kubitschek why he didn't ask some homely women to dance. "I do, Mr. President," he quipped, "but only during an election campaign...
...German-speaking immigrant from what is now Czechoslovakia, continued to go by her maiden name after her marriage, and Juscelino grew up as Kubitschek rather than Oliveira. Now that he is famous, his countrymen rarely pronounce the name Kubitschek; he is simply "Juscelino," just as Vargas was always "Getulio...
Kubitschek may have secretly hoped that his man Jango would lose. That result could actually improve Kubitschek's prospects of taking office in routine fashion on inauguration day (Jan. 31). The army generals who last year demanded President Getulio Vargas' resignation (he committed suicide instead) have little liking for Kubitschek. He was a friend of Vargas and member of a pro-Vargas party, the Social Democrats; thus he was at least indirectly linked with the charges of corruption that brought the Vargas regime crashing down. But the generals have even less liking for youthful (37) Rabble-Rouser Goulart...
...women all over Brazil observed a minute of solemn silence one day last week. It was the first anniversary of the dramatic morning on which President Getulio Vargas, confronted with a military demand for his resignation, put a pistol to his heart and committed suicide. With parades and mass meetings banned by the police, the day was quiet. The mourners who gathered around the flower-ringed bronze bust of Vargas in Rio's Florian Square seemed subdued and voiceless...
Adhemar's entry in effect turns the Brazilian election into a three-way race. The other top contenders are Governor Juscelino Kubitschek of Minas Gerais state, heir to the leftish populista forces of the late President Getulio Vargas, and General Juarez Tavora, hero of the conservative military leaders whose determination to clean up the mess in Rio led to Vargas' resignation and suicide last year. But rumors were louder than ever in Rio last week that the officers would postpone the election unless their man seems likely...