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Moscow Coup. But the man who held the brightest spotlight was nowhere near Rio last week. He was 7,000 miles away in the person of Janio Quadros, 42, the homespun, popular ex-governor of Sao Paulo state and front-running candidate of the conservative National Democratic Union (U.D.N.). Topping off a round-the-world junket, Quadros followed Richard Nixon into Moscow, got himself a full 45 minutes with the jovial Nikita Khrushchev, came out to urge "the most rapid possible" resumption of diplomatic relations with Russia. Cockily, Janio added: "The Soviet Union gets its coffee from Africa and, judging...
...intense, rail-thin man with a bush of a mustache and thick-framed spectacles-a man society columnists joshed as Brazil's "worst dressed of 1958"-last week became front runner for the presidency in 1960. His name Janio Quadros...
Last week most of the U.D.N. marched into Janio's camp, even though he has no links to the party. Leading was Publisher Carlos Lacerda, U.D.N.'s fiery Chamber of Deputies floor leader and long an enemy of Quadros (he once called Quadros "dirty inside...
...Lacerda dislikes President Juscelino Ku-bitschek and his Social Democratic Party (P.S.D.) more. When he learned that U.D.N. President Juracy Magalhaes was negotiating an alliance with Kubitschek's P.S.D. that would make Magalhaes President in 1960, Lacerda conferred with Quadros, bannerlined the news in his Tribuna da Imprensa: JANIO...
...auxiliary bishop of Rio). Outside the northeast, Távora has apparently failed to capture much working-class support, despite 1) his promise to impose profit sharing on employers and 2) campaign help from one of Brazil's most gifted demagogues, São Paulo Governor Janio Quadros, who took a leave of absence to stump for Távora...