Word: juscelino
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...their springs creaking under all the paraphernalia of bureaucracy, from swivel chairs to paper clips. In the wilderness of Brazil's central plateau, planes touched down on a new, jet-length runway every two minutes with Tempelhof-like precision. This week, before a crowd of 200,000, President Juscelino Kubitschek will officially move the Brazilian government into Brasilia, his $500 million new capital. Boasts Kubitschek: "We have turned our back on the sea and penetrated to the heartland of the nation. Now the people realize their strength...
Eyes West. Kubitschek's critics dub him "Pharaoh Juscelino" because historians reach back for a comparison to the Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, who between 1375 and 1358 B.C. built the Egyptian capital of Akhetaton after deciding that Thebes was out of favor with his god. In ambition, though not in tragic cost, Brasilia might also be compared to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), erected on inhospitable marsh, at a cost of more than 30,000 lives, to gratify Peter the Great's passion to open ingrown Russia to the Baltic and to Western influence. Kubitschek also looks west, but inwardly...
...arrival was further complicated by Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek, who had received a false report that Ike's plane would be delayed. Kubitschek made a breathless appearance 14 minutes after the Air Force One had landed, and not until then did Ike emerge from his plane, but with complete decorum and a friendly pat ("I understand perfectly") for Kubitschek...
Inflation Program. Lott is also the candidate of President Juscelino Kubi-tschek's Social Democrats, a party of bureaucrats and big landholders, and he thereby inherits Kubitschek's policy of forced-draft development through inflation. Lott thus has all the massive backing that elected Kubitschek...
...nations they govern include the biggest in the hemisphere. Argentina's Arturo Frondizi, inheriting the Santa Claus economy built by Juan Perón, has fearlessly shot Santa Claus and put the nation to work. Brazil's Juscelino Kubitschek is daringly steering the fastest boom in Latin America, industrializing the country with printed money. Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo is bringing political peace in the wake of two dictatorships and moving toward a sound program of land reform. Chile's Jorge Alessandri is tackling one of the world's worst cases of inflation...