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Eleven days after John Kennedy, 43, raised his right hand in snow-chilled Washington, Janio Quadros, 44, ducked his head through Brazil's green-and-yellow sash of presidential office in Brazil's unfinished new capital of Brasilia. The coincidence of age and time obviously struck Quadros. "This month's changes of administration in the United States and Brazil," he said, "give new hope of hemisphere-wide cooperation...
...product an average of 6% a year, increasing steel production and power output. The trip was expensive: as Kubitschek prepares to clear out of Brasilia's Palace of the Dawn, the chest he leaves is a Pandora's box of fiscal troubles (see chart) for incoming President Janio Quadros...
...Janio Quadros, the conservative, eccentric but successful former Governor of wealthy São Paulo State, is the closest thing to a candidate of the right in next October's Brazilian presidential election...
...Kubitschek ran in a three-way race against weak candidates; Lott is up against ex-Schoolteacher Janio Quadros, who in a few years rose from obscurity to become the new-broom governor of Sao Paulo, spark of Brazil's industrial boom. Quadros kicks off his shoes on the stump, spills ashes on his shirt and works the crowd to frenzy. His program is honest government, slashing bureaucracy, building roads and power plants, and turning private enterprise loose for progress. He describes his own nationalism as "grownup, vaccinated and old enough to vote." Quadros' main handicap: the streak...
...since he left for Japan last March. Brazil's newspapers sent their top men to catch Quadros in Japan, Turkey, Israel, Europe. Quadros missed not a beat on the toast-quaffing circuit, had something at every stop to tickle Brazil's minority groups. Said a Rio politician: "Janio won Brazil's Japanese vote in Tokyo, its Italian vote in Rome, the Jewish vote in Tel Aviv." Everywhere, Janio outlined his platform: the same kind of honest government that brought a boom when he was governor (TIME, March...