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...Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, the evening spent at the University was one of reminiscence over his accomplishments as President of Brazil. Stopping by Cambridge in the middle of a rapid lecture tour of the United States, the man who preceded Janio Quadros gave a quick sketch of Brazil's major economic problems and the measures his Administration had designed to deal with them...
...curiously, Kubitschek's suggestions that were to have the widest reach and scope concerned the relatively prosperous area of the central South. (This area, which includes the most heavily industrial sectors such as those of Sao Paulo, is generaly considered the key to overcoming Brazil's most perplexing economic problem: an unfavorable balance of trade...
Brasilia, he said, fulfills this need by opening up trade routes to the North-west; furthermore, "numerous population centers are already springing up along the highways." Besides, the idea of such a city has so long been debated that Kubitschek concluded building it was a "constitutional mandate...
...acceptable to both sides. The choice: Tancredo Neves, 51, a conservative businessman from Minas Gerais, who was Justice Minister under President Getúlio Vargas in 1954 and was now serving a quiet term as a federal Deputy. Politically, he had the value of belonging to ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek's Social Democratic Party (P.S.D.), which holds the largest block of seats in Brazil's Congress. Temperamentally, he was the sort that Goulart, himself a political heir to flamboyant old Dictator Vargas, thought he could get along with...
Eminent Respectability. The Cabinet list that Goulart and Neves produced was certainly respectable. To tackle the economic chaos left behind by Kubitschek's inflation and Quadros' panic, they named as Finance Minister Walther Moreira Salles, a banker who twice served ably as Ambassador to the U.S. and has helped negotiate well over $1 billion worth of U.S. credits. As Foreign Minister, Neves named San Tiago Dantas. an expert in international law chosen by Quadros to represent Brazil at this month's U.N. General Assembly session. Congress accepted the entire Cabinet package...