Word: kubitscheks
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...spot in his class, but took 30 years to reach a rather undistinguished colonelcy. It took another 14 years to reach the War Ministry, where his rigid devotion to duty led him to stage his 1955 "preventive coup" to ensure the threatened inauguration of constitutionally elected President Juscelino Kubitschek...
...government candidate, he inherited the archnationalist and Communist support that helped elect Kubitschek. He left Red-lining harangues to others on his team. For himself, he insisted that he was a practicing Roman Catholic and an unswerving, antiCommunist. He promised to continue building Brazil as Kubitschek has done, but avoided committing himself to the printing-press method of payment that Kubitschek has used...
...same time Brazil's Foreign Minister Horacio Lafer read Roa's speech and also stiffened. Roa had called him "the run-see-and-tell" of the U.S. State Department. That night, Brazil's President Kubitschek phoned Argentina's Frondizi. Next day envoys from both nations marched stiffly into the Cuban Foreign Office with protests. Said Brazil's ambassador: "My government rejects this offense against national dignity." Said the Argentine note: "The insulting phrases set an imprudent precedent...
Last month Magalhaes turned up at Rio's Laranjeiras Palace and sat down to lunch with President Kubitschek. By dessert, the President had vowed to make good on his promise to pave the highway linking Bahia with Rio, 750 miles to the south, and last week the government let 24 contracts for the $38 million job. Kubitschek also promised to find $3,500,000 to complete one of Magalhaes' cheris'ied projects: long-deferred completion of the 20,000-kw. power dam on the Rio das Contas, which would feed electricity to the southern part...
...wrote, "especially if you try it the Danton Walker way. It resulted in a mild coronary for me brought on by cha-cha-cha lessons which began in West Berlin, starting with a delightful Italian movie doll named Giorgia Moll, continued in Rio de Janeiro with Mrs. Juscelino Kubitschek, First Lady of Brazil, and ended on stage (with Katharine Huntington) in a wharf theater in Provincetown, Mass...