Word: kubitscheks
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...fire-breathing editorial attack on corruption that eventually drove President Getúlio Vargas to suicide. The following year, when Juscelino Kubitschek got himself elected President with the help of Vargas' party, Lacerda fomented a coup to prevent Kubitschek from taking office; only a countercoup by loyal army officers upset the plot. All the while, Lacerda was blistering Jânio Quadros, then governor of Sāo Paulo, whom he called "a paranoiac," "a delirious virtuoso of felony," "the Brazilian version of Adolf Hitler." The two called off the feud long enough to cooperate in the 1960 elections...
...flights a month, "which means," he says casually, "that I take off and land practically every day." A sudden crush of crises in his work recently compelled one labor leader to fly between Rio and São Paulo four times in a single day. Former President Juscelino Kubitschek, the man who sited Brasilia out in the outback, has just clocked his 40,000th airborne hour, or nearly five years of his life spent up in the air. Poor Oscar Niemeyer, the brilliant architect of Brasilia, so hates flying that whenever he has to go home to Rio, it takes...
...most unpopular point on the triangle is Brasilia, which only six years ago was nothing but wilderness and a gleam in the eye of then President Kubitschek. Now it is a city of architectural splendor and 300,000 people, most of whom would rather be somewhere else. Housing is scarce, and so is night life. About one-third of the 475 Congressmen and Senators still maintain homes in Rio, a few war ministry bureaucrats even commute daily from Rio, and the foreign ministry, still based in Rio, keeps only a handful of clerks in Brasilia...
...began a career as political insider, first as campaign manager for President Juscelino Kubitschek, later as confidant to President Jãnio Quadros. Meanwhile, he edited A Noite, the government-owned paper, put out a magazine singlehanded, then became a political columnist before taking control last December and making himself publisher, editor and director of Tribuna da Imprensa...
Power to Burn. Then, in the early 19th century, the gold and diamond rush tailed off. Minas Gerais sank into backwoods somnolence. Not until the 20th century did the state come alive again. Even then the real surge had to wait until Juscelino Kubitschek, born in the old diamond center of Diamantina, moved into the governor's palace in 1951 in the new capital of Belo Horizonte. "Power and transportation," pledged Kubitschek, and that was only the beginning...