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Down to Bedrock. Behind such determined optimism remains the harsh fact that Curtis is still losing money. By selling assets, however, and cutting the Post from 45 issues a year to 26, the company has held its 1965 losses to an estimated $6,000,000, compared with last year's $14 million. As a result, the company's money men feel that their operation has been vastly strengthened...
That might be a bit harsh. Yet in a campaign without any real issues, the most either man could promise was more, more, more to a prosperously contented nation that is already getting more every day-and expects it as a matter of course. Even the huge wheat sales to Russia and Red China (850 million bu. worth $1.7 billion in the past two years) were taken for granted; of 48 seats in the prairie provinces, Pearson's Liberals won exactly one. By the same token, last winter's series of influence-peddling scandals in Pearson...
...gubernatorial elections in which his P.S.D. party scored impressive victories, he might even have expected his dramatic reappearance to trigger a popular counterrevolution against President Castello Branco's revolutionary government. What it provoked was the anger of the linha dura (hardline) military officers behind Castello Branco and a harsh new Institutional Act (TIME, Nov. 5), which dissolved all political parties and effectively put Brazil under rule by decree. Kubitschek himself was hauled before a military tribunal for such intensive grilling about corruption during his 1956-61 term that he wound up sick abed with high blood pressure...
Nevertheless, in a chilling study of Southern "law enforcement" that was issued last week, the congressionally created U.S. Civil Rights Commission appointed by the President recounted case after case of excessive bail, deliberate court delays, harsh sentences and cruel jail conditions-all tactics that were used to cow Negroes long before the civil rights movement got started. Calling for federal action, the commission urged on-the-spot FBI arrests and injunctive relief against state prosecutions of citizens trying to exercise First Amendment rights, such as peaceful assembly...
Armed with its harsh new Institutional Act, Brazil's revolutionary gov ernment pressed relentlessly ahead in its war against Communism, corruption and all the other things it finds wrong with Brazil. In Rio, rumors flew that recently returned ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, still sick abed after two weeks of military questioning about his graft-riddled 1956-61 regime, would soon be heading back to exile. In Sao Paulo, erratic ex-President Janio Quadros was called before a military tribunal amid stories that he and scores of others were going to jail for corruption during his wild seven-month regime...