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...when he took over as the army-picked candidate for President just over a year ago. Far from doing that, charged the sober dai ly Jornal do Brasil, Costa's administration "has surpassed all the limits of unpopularity known by its predecessor," which was headed by the stern Humberto Castello Branco...
...Natural Choice. Declaring all-out war against tax dodgers, then-President Humberto Castello Branco pushed through a law making tax evasion a crime (maximum penalty: two years) and providing for payroll deductions and official inspection of private bank accounts. An economist and accountant with 22 years' experience in tax work, Travancas was a natural choice to head the program. He began by weeding out dishonest tax collectors and setting up special training programs for new recruits. To find Brazil's big spenders, Travancas' agents combed membership lists in race-track and yacht clubs, studied society columns, watched...
...they preferred to flock to the beaches. The solemn salute of gunfire every ten minutes from Rio's forts went largely unnoticed. Thus, followed to the very end by the unpopularity that had been his lot in three years as an honest but uncharismatic President of Brazil, Humberto Castello Branco last week went to his grave at the age of 66, victim of a plane crash in the fifth month of his retirement. Said former Planning Minister Roberto Campos in a eulogy: "He had an aversion to easy promises and theatricalized results. He deeply dreaded creating false hopes...
...Died. Humberto Castello Branco, 66, former President of Brazil (see THE WORLD...
...flourishing in Brazil, but it is lucky even to be alive. Brazil's military men believe that they saved it in the nick of time in 1964 when they toppled leftist President Joao Goulart, who seemed to be moving toward a Communist-type dictatorship, and installed Army General Humberto Castello Branco as President. Elected to succeed Castello Branco by a Congress subservient to the military and controlled by the government's ARENA Party, Costa e Silva has promised to humanize the revolution launched by his austere and humorless predecessor-but he has also made it clear that...