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...able to do much about Brazil's endemic sin of inflation. In one 31-month period, the cost of living soared an astronomical 340%, and in 1964 alone, the year that free-spending João Goulart was thrown out, it was heading up 150%. Yet when President Humberto Castello Branco took over, he confidently vowed to achieve stability in just two years...
Exterior Signs. It is now. Aware that unbalanced government budgets were a key factor in Brazil's rampaging inflation, President Humberto Castello Branco and his revolutionary military regime rammed through a tough universal income-tax law that set realistic tax rates* streamlined the archaic collection system, made tax dodgers liable to two years in prison. In to run the operation moved Orlando Travancas, 47, a reform-bent tax official who has weeded out dishonest inspectors, set up a school to train new ones, and installed ten computers to keep track of returns...
...prospect of a Peronist victory in the gubernatorial elections next March, the army had just handed Illia a warning to get a move on-or else. So into the Casa Rosada last week filed his eight ministers, ten ministerial-rank Secretaries of State and Vice President Carlos Humberto Perette. When they filed out again, they promised the army that action would be taken. From now on, the Cabinet decided, it would meet with the President every week...
Patronage & Bribes. Over the years, Adhemar accumulated a sizable fortune, and it was just as well that he did. For last week President Humberto Castello Branco, with the weight of the military behind him, suddenly fired Adhemar and canceled his political rights for ten years. The reason: Adhemar had turned against the revolution. The issue: who would succeed him at the end of his term in January...
When he installed Humberto Castello Branco as Brazil's President after the 1964 revolution, War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva, 63, the bluff, hearty head of Brazil's military, said loudly and clearly that he had no desire to be President himself. That was two years ago, however, and General Costa e Silva has since decided that being President is not such a bad idea after all. In fact, he has all but tied up the job as successor to Castello Branco...