Word: juscelino
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...centered on a pale, slender man in white tie and black tailcoat. "I swear," he said, tense with emotion, "to uphold, defend and obey the Constitution of the Republic, and to maintain its union, integrity and independence." Intoned the presiding officer of the Chamber of Deputies: "I proclaim you, Juscelino Kubitschek, President of the Republic for a period of five years...
...President," said Ramos, "you are taking over the government of the Republic in an hour of great changes and great hopes." And with that, Juscelino Kubitschek, 54, sometime practicing physician and surgeon, last week took up the burden of governing a half-formed, painfully growing giant of a nation, greater in area than the U.S., greater in its 58 million population than France or Britain, but still a Land of the Future, its past a tangle of good intentions and bad techniques, its present clouded and uncertain...
...visitors. He slapped backs, grasped hands, whisked children up in his arms to buss their cheeks. Then, unaided by any microphone, he made a brief, unscheduled speech from the veranda. "I intend to work for order, justice and the welfare of the people." he said. "We are with you, Juscelino!" somebody shouted, and the crowd thundered agreement...
...from Diamantina. The hard task of leading Brazil into what he calls "the final stage of emancipation" will be harder for Juscelino Kubitschek because he took office as a figure of controversy. He won last October's election with only 36% of the votes; only a "preventive revolution" by the army halted a drive by bitter-end opponents to nullify the vote and call off the inauguration...
...Mother's Son." In his exterior, Juscelino Kubitschek resembles his handsome father, João Oliveira, a gay, clever but improvident amateur poet, who died when Juscelino was two. Inside, he is far more like his prim, pious mother Júlia. Stern Widow Júlia reared the boy and his older sister Maria on a schoolteacher's salary. Harried and embittered by poverty, Júlia drilled into her son a fierce will to succeed. Now a hale-looking 83, she still calls him by his boyhood nickname...