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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A wealthy rancher from Rio Grande do Sul state, Goulart learned his politics at the knee of a ranching neighbor, oldtime Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, became Labor Minister when Vargas swept back into the presidency in 1950. Jango immediately began buying labor's votes with promises of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Goodbye to Jango | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

At U.C.L.A. both Presidents donned cap and gown to receive honorary doctor of laws degrees. Later they flew to Palm Springs, called on Dwight Eisenhower (it was, said Ike, "just an evening with old friends") and settled down to private talks. The agenda inevitably included disarmament, the lagging Alliance for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: A Pinch of Salt | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

In Mexico City, Freeman has a tough act to follow. Under able former Ambassador Thomas C. Mann, who recently moved up to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (TIME cover, Jan. 31), Mexican-U.S. relations reached a rare high point. The nagging, century-old Chamizal border dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: New Hand Across the Border | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

Shortly after dawn, the party of twelve doughty adventurers donned life jackets, split into pairs and shoved off from shore on half a dozen rubber rafts. Mission: to shoot the rapids of the swirling Rio Grande as it passes through 1,900-ft.-deep Mariscal Canyon in Texas' Big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 7, 1964 | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

More than 3,000 miles away, the distress signals were picked up by a U.S. Coast Guard station. The Lakonia's position was immediately fed into an AMVER (Atlantic Merchant Vessel Report) computer, which plots the location, course and speed-and records such information as whether a doctor is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: The Last Voyage of the Lakonia | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

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