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...characteristically headlong performance by the 44-year-old politico, who took office seven months ago with the biggest popular majority in Brazilian history. It came after a week of feuding and fussing, touched off-not surprisingly-by the warmth of Quadros' welcome for Cuba's homeward-bound economic czar, Che Guevara. The Cuban did not arrive on schedule. Row on row of officials were left waiting at the Brasilia airport. When Che finally arrived without warning the next day, only a few mechanics were on hand. Quadros later put on his best blue serge to greet...
Whitefield, N.H., Chase Barn Playhouse: The stage version of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel...
...Editor's Report," "will be read by you while your intrepid correspondent is once again flying over the Atlantic . . . The last three weeks have been, I guess, about the busiest the Hearst Task Force has ever put in." The Taskmaster of journalism's most extraordinary team was homeward bound, proudly clutching fresh trophies from his continuing international big-name hunt...
...morality." He appeared at the presidential office building at 7:30 a.m. the day after inauguration only to find long lines of offices standing empty. With cold anger he ordered a new ten-hour workday, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., with a three-hour break. That very evening, homeward-bound functionaries, slipping into buses at 6 p.m., were ordered out and back to work by palace guards. Quadros also ordered an investigation of corruption in five federal agencies-an action that is bound to have a stirring effect on Brazil's politicians of the old spendthrift days...
...from Port Washington, Long Island, keeps as careful a check as the engineer on the arrival time. Says he of the 7:34: "It hasn't varied more than two or three minutes for quite some time now." After a packed day, Donner heads homeward with a briefcase full of papers, brings them back next morning marked with his own crisp comments...