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Taxpayers: Rich . . . The committee grew out of the "Operation Pan America'' that Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek proposed last June as a way of repairing the damage done by the stones flung at U.S. Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas one year ago. Kubitschek's idea man and delegate, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, frankly sees the committee as one more chance for Latin America to play Scheherazade to the U.S.'s sultan. "Every night," explained Schmidt, "we have to tell the U.S. a story so that we can continue to live. Perhaps after a thousand...
...over Cuba at 19,000 feet, Castro broadcast a harangue down to his subjects via Havana radio stations: "It is difficult to adapt myself to the idea of passing over Cuba. Naturally, I feel emotional." But he kept right on going-to Brasilia and a meeting with President Juscelino Kubitschek, to Buenos Aires, where President Arturo Frondizi pointedly kept him from provocative public appearances...
...hangar looked more like the devil's bomb shelter -a parabolic vault of glass and stucco, with an emaciated Christ glaring from a huge fresco by Painter Candido Portinari. Worse, Architect Niemeyer and Painter Portinari were godless Communists. Despite protests by Belo Horizonte's Mayor Juscelino Kubitschek, Archbishop Dom Antonio dos Santos Cabral called the structure "unfit for religious purposes...
Last week the 16-year controversy was finally ended. The old archbishop had gone into virtual retirement; Mayor Kubitschek was President of Brazil; and Architect Niemeyer was an ex-Communist. After a long talk with Brazil's national-monuments chief, Auxiliary Archbishop Dom João Rezende Costa agreed that the church has "great artistic significance and a spiritual atmosphere." Refurbished by Architect Niemeyer, the old chapel was at last consecrated by Archbishop Rezende Costa before an enthusiastic crowd of citizens. Said the archbishop: "Now we can feel the wonderful art created here in homage to the Creator." Said...
...leftist nationalists who admire his pronouncements favoring land reform and the socialistic state oil monopoly. He himself is the sort of nationalist who opposes diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R., wins conservative admiration as a stabilizing force, warmly admires the U.S. He is hoping to get the support of Kubitschek's Social Democrats...