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...resignation, the one certainty emerging is that Quadros never intended his Vice President Goulart to rule (presumably he thought the prospect so alarming that he would be called back). Before he resigned, Quadros summoned his three armed forces ministers and brusquely told them: "With this Congress, I cannot govern. Organize a military junta and run the country." But the military faltered in the face of the public's rallying to constitutional methods, even if it meant bringing Goulart to power. Goulart suddenly found himself in a position to maneuver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Way Back | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

...impeachment on charges of misusing public funds. After the Texas legislature stripped him of the right to run for public office again, Farmer Jim decided to run his wife instead. In the campaign. Jim Ferguson did most of the talking, made no effort to hide his scheme to govern Texas in his wife's name. The corn pone slogans reeked of duality: "Me for Ma," and "Two Governors for the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: The Dutiful Wife | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...rules which presently govern the Romance Languages, German and Linguistics concentrators will also restrict the History and Literature students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History and Lit Seeks Junior Year in Europe | 5/16/1961 | See Source »

...immoderate use of tobacco threatens the health." But although Presi dent Charles de Gaulle (once a two-pack-a-day man) long ago swore off smoking on doctors' advice, the toxicologist's speech, unlike the rest of the festivities, was not broadcast over France's govern ment-owned radio-TV network. For to bacco has been a government monopoly in France since 1811, when Napoleon noticed an ostentatiously bejeweled woman at a Tuileries ball and then discovered that her husband was a tobacco merchant. That very night. Napoleon is supposed to have signed the decree nationalizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nicot's Weed | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...after a while, the prince himself became discouraged. "What is the point of sending children to school?" he asked. "We are backward, and whatever we do shall never rise to the level of other peoples. Anyway, an educated population is difficult to govern." He grew increasingly impervious to Western influence, despite his summer visits to the royal villa at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera. By the time he took the throne in 1959, after the old King died at 74, Savang Vatthana seemed to have sunk into a torpor that could not be shaken by the fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: The White Elephant | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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