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Brazilians know Lacerda as a politician in perpetual motion, the man whose unceasing attacks forced Jãnio Quadros to resign and focused opposition on his successor, the Leftist João Goulart. He is a hard man to feel neutral about. In blazing headlines around the country, pro-Lacerda papers took up the cudgels for his "most noble civic and moral propositions." Anti-Lacerda papers vilified him as a "murderer" and "torturer." As he neared Rio last week, political enemies narrowly missed in an attempt to dynamite his train. Brazil's three other major political parties hastily announced...
While Something More! threatens to make the sleeping pill obsolete, it does shake itself awake for two stage-splintering dance numbers featuring a pair of agile Corybantes, Paula Kelly and Jo Jo Smith. It is dispiriting to watch Arthur Hill and Barbara Cook, as novelist and wife, dutifully pouring their talents into such hackwork, but the job promises to be mercifully transient...
...hour later it was only 19. In the end, with 630 seats at stake, Labor had won 317, or a majority of only four. The Tories carried 304 constituencies, down 56. The minuscule Liberal Party had nine, up two from the last Parliament, and Liberal Leader Jo Grimond promised, "under certain conditions," to support a Labor government. In the popular vote, Labor captured 44.2% of the ballots, Conservatives 43.4%, Liberals 11.2%, Communists .2% , others...
...housecleaning, Brazil's revolutionary government last week gave up its power to purge-just as President Humberto Castello Branco had promised it would. The bristles in Castello Branco's broom were two articles in the sweeping Institutional Act decreed by the revolutionaries after they deposed leftist President João Goulart last April. Under Article 10, which was in effect for two months, the government could revoke for ten years the political rights of anyone judged guilty of subversion or corruption; under Article 7, lasting six months, it could fire or retire any government employee judged guilty...
...permitted; evidence was heard and acted upon behind closed doors by a panel of officers and civilians, who then presented their recommendations to President Castello Branco for approval. When it expired four months ago, 378 Brazilians, including three ex-Presidents (Juscelino Kubitschek, Jânio Quadros and the deposed João Goulart) had been stripped of their rights to vote, hold elective office or government jobs. With Goulart, it was academic, since he had fled to exile in Uruguay, but it ended, at least temporarily, the careers of Kubitschek and Quadros. Article 7 didn't use such star...