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...discreetly silent six-month cruise around the world, enigmatic ex-President Janio Quadros this week returns to Brazil, and to an Ash Wednesday welcome that well in advance was being built to heroic proportions. Some 6,000 workers from Rio de Janeiro were bound for the port of Santos to greet his ship. Bus caravans from all over Brazil are scheduled to take thousands more to cheer the prodigal's return...
...Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, the evening spent at the University was one of reminiscence over his accomplishments as President of Brazil. Stopping by Cambridge in the middle of a rapid lecture tour of the United States, the man who preceded Janio Quadros gave a quick sketch of Brazil's major economic problems and the measures his Administration had designed to deal with them...
...once painted signs for mule carts, Portinari was the first South American ever given a one-man show by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and, though an avowed Communist for much of his career, accepted commissions for a portrait of former Brazilian President Janio Quadros for TIME'S cover (June 30, 1961), the monumental War and Peace panels in the U.N. General Assembly, and a series of church murals...
Four months after Janio Quadros' abdication as President of Brazil, Latin America's largest nation is lurching along in a way that may turn dangerous. At first the question was whether Labor-Boss João ("Jango'') Goulart as President or Tancredo Neves, a financier-turned-politician, as Prime Minister would actually lead the country. In fact, neither does. Nobody does. In remote Brasilia, the fractious Parliament carries on politics as usual. The far left hopes to proceed from chaos to power. It is up to dedicated second-echelon technicians to slow inflation and keep...
...morning, 10 months after he had been elected president of Brazil by the largest plurality in that country's history, Janio Quadros resigned. "Quadros preferred to resign rather than see a gradual take-over by forces of the extreme left," John N. Plank, instructor in Government, said last night...