Word: kubitscheks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet the plane that brings TIME'S Latin American edition from our Havana printers. At the airport, customs officers break open a packet of the magazines, then, before clearing any other cargo, they give a copy of TIME to the palace messenger. He rushes it to President Juscelino Kubitschek's secretary, João Luis, who delivers it immediately to the President, even if he has to interrupt a conference...
...weekly reader of TIME'S Latin American edition," remarked cover-to-cover Reader Kubitschek, "I wish to say its reports give me the best general view of what goes on in the world -and, I might add, sometimes of what goes on even in my own country...
JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK...
Even before he signed a bill passed by Congress ending the state of siege imposed by an interim administration last November, Kubitschek abolished the military patrols guarding Catete. With no time to waste on pomp, he canceled the guard ceremonies traditionally held every time the President entered or left the palace. To thin out and speed up the flow of papers and persons through Catete's corridors, he personally supervised a wholesale redistribution of office space. He trimmed the Catete staff from 586 to 392, shut down the three palace kitchens that had been serving lunch (on the house...
...carry out his five-year "Power, Transportation and Food" development program. Kubitschek needs to attract foreign capital to Brazil. Last week he took time to talk with prospective U.S. and German investors, got quick action on at least one project. A team of Mercedes-Benz automen arrived in Rio from Germany one morning, conferred with the President that afternoon, promptly got a truck-factory plan speeded on its way. "No matter how busy I may be," vowed Kubitschek, "any foreign investor who comes to Brazil will find my door open...