Word: juscelino
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Carved out of the wilderness 580 miles north of Rio, Brasilia was the creation of President Juscelino Kubitschek, who started building Brazil's new capital in 1957 as one sure way of opening up the country's interior. The "Capital of Hope," he called it. His successors felt no such attachment. Recoiling from the dust, disorder and frontier-town isolation, Janio Quadros called it "the cursed city," spent much of his time huddled in the palace projection room, guzzling Scotch and staring at Liz Taylor movies. Joao Goulart studiously avoided the unfinished capital for months on end. Construction...
...principles" or whose party is linked to foreign governments. Thus all Communists and Castroites are excluded. There is no room on the ballot for anyone whose political rights were suspended in the early days of the revolution, thereby blocking the comeback of former Presidents Jânio Quadros and Juscelino Kubitschek, whose voting privileges were lifted for ten years. Also excluded is any person who served as a Cabinet minister under deposed Joāo Goulart, the demagogic President whose purposeful drift to the left sparked last year's revolution. Finally, the bill rules out anyone who "has engaged...
...politician now serving as governor of Guanabara state, which includes Rio. Brazilians know him as the man whose hounding attacks helped drive Dictator Getulio Vargas to suicide in 1954. Lacerda-who started as a Communist, then swung to the right-was the severest critic of Presidents Cafe Filho and Juscelino Kubitschek, played a major role in pushing the erratic Janio Quadros into resigning, and was a key civilian leader in the 1964 revolution that toppled Leftist Joao Goulart...
...west coast. Belaúnde's engineers are already pushing penetration routes from the coastal town of Pisco to the mountain town of Ayacucho, from Nazca into Cuzco, from Puno down the rugged eastern slope of the Andes into the southern montana. Estimated cost: $400 million. Like Juscelino Kubitschek's Brasilia, the project will be years justifying itself. "But you know," ventures one Peruvian, "in a hundred years we might look awfully foolish...
Died. Augusto Frederico Schmidt, 58, Brazilian poet, politician and entrepreneur, a smalltime merchant's son who wormed his way into Rio society with critically acclaimed verse, through his contacts built up a huge business complex (15 supermarkets in Rio alone), in the 1950s became President Juscelino Kubitschek's top speech writer and the brains behind his "Operation Pan America," forerunner of the Alianza; of a heart attack...