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...needs a heroic effort to become a success. A respectable 60% of the federal Deputies now live in town, and Brasilia's population of 500,000 makes it Brazil's tenth-largest city. But many recalcitrant bureaucrats continue to ignore the lofty imperative of former President Juscelino Kubitschek, who conceived the idea of Brasilia: "We must march to the west, turn our backs to the sea, and stop staring at the ocean -as if thinking of departing...
Frontier Flavor. What Kubitschek could not achieve by evangelism, Brazil's military regime seems determined to accomplish by edict. In marking the tenth anniversary of the capital last month, President Emilio Garrastazu Medici decreed that Cabinet Ministers must henceforth conduct their business only in Brasilia. The Rio-based foreign diplomatic colony will have to follow suit by 1972. The move does offer one compensation to diplomats, though: Brasilia, with its limited escape routes, should discourage political kidnapings...
...first to be arrested under the new decree was former President Juscelino Kubitschek, whose popularity has consistently gained as that of Costa has waned. He was whisked away from the steps of Rio's downtown Teatro Municipal, where he had just addressed a graduating class. Also reported arrested: Helio Fernandes, publisher of the newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa; Osvaldo Peralva, director of the opposition paper Correio da Manha; several high officials of former regimes; and Singer-Composer Chico Buarque de Hollanda. His stage play, Roda Viva, was recently raided by right-wing thugs and its leading lady was tossed nude...
Candles and Cake. Neither, it seems, could anyone who got an invitation. Of notable names, there was no end: Umberto, ex-King of Italy; Juscelino Kubitschek, ex-President of Brazil; Stavros Niarchos, ex-husband of Charlotte Ford Niarchos. For titles, there were the Maharanee of Baroda, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Princess Ira von Furstenberg and Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes. Salvador Dali materialized, so to speak. So did Hollywood Director Vincente Minnelli, Sonja Henie, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Audrey Hepburn, Françoise Sagan and Penelope Tree...
...have given Brazilians an almost mystical sense of destiny-a feeling that greatness has always been inevitable. Onetime Dictator (1930-45) and President (1951-54) Getulio Vargas cried: "We are marching toward a new future different from all we know." "We are doomed to greatness,"' lamented President Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-61). "This is the land of Canaan, unlimited and fecund," said President Jánio Quadros, who only held office for seven months in 1961 and who also rashly declared: "In five years Brazil will be a great power." Everytime they strike up their national anthem, Brazilians join...