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...rules permitting ticket-splitting, hundreds of thousands of voters who decided for Candidate Barros also voted for Candidate Tavora's running mate, an able jurist named Milton Campos. At week's end Campos was so close behind Kubitschek's running mate, leftish João ("Jango") Goulart, that the contest was still in doubt...
Kubitschek may have secretly hoped that his man Jango would lose. That result could actually improve Kubitschek's prospects of taking office in routine fashion on inauguration day (Jan. 31). The army generals who last year demanded President Getulio Vargas' resignation (he committed suicide instead) have little liking for Kubitschek. He was a friend of Vargas and member of a pro-Vargas party, the Social Democrats; thus he was at least indirectly linked with the charges of corruption that brought the Vargas regime crashing down. But the generals have even less liking for youthful (37) Rabble-Rouser Goulart...
...significantly bested the politically potent ghost of the late President Getulio Vargas. After Vargas' suicide in August, ultra-nationalists and Communists rallied around congressional candidates running in Vargas' name; pro-U.S. moderates backed Cafe Filho. But not even Vargas' rabble-rousing former Labor Minister, Joao ("Jango") Goulart, succeeded in winning his race for Senator, and as the votes piled up, the net effect was a green light for Cafe Filho to steer Brazil down the middle of the road. ¶ Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas, who seized power in June's anti-Communist...
Tremount Temple-Feb. 17. "Jango" University-Feb. 13. Wm. Boyd. Fay Wray, and Helen Kane in "Pointed Heels...