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...tired lines of three and a half months' hard work plain on his face, President Juscelino Kubitschek sat down at a polished oak table in Catete Palace behind a radio microphone one evening last week. He glanced down the table at the assembled members of his Cabinet, checked the time, then picked up a sheaf of papers and began to read what amounted to a nationwide appeal for patience and confidence. The slow, forceful voice was clearly heard and clearly understood: "This government took over with two main objectives: to fight inflation and to develop the country...
...Kubitschek's battle against inflation is still too recent to have achieved reportable results; the bulk of his speech dealt with development of resources. The President had bright news of Brazil's petroleum industry. In 1955, he recalled, the country produced 2,000,000 barrels of oil, enough for only ten days' use. This year the Bahia oilfields will pump out more than 5,500,000 barrels, enough to supply the country for a month (at the present rate of consumption). Next year production of 15 million barrels is expected. And, he announced, new exchange rates...
...meet the plane that brings TIME'S Latin American edition from our Havana printers. At the airport, customs officers break open a packet of the magazines, then, before clearing any other cargo, they give a copy of TIME to the palace messenger. He rushes it to President Juscelino Kubitschek's secretary, João Luis, who delivers it immediately to the President, even if he has to interrupt a conference...
...weekly reader of TIME'S Latin American edition," remarked cover-to-cover Reader Kubitschek, "I wish to say its reports give me the best general view of what goes on in the world -and, I might add, sometimes of what goes on even in my own country...
...President Kubitschek and some 200,000 other Latin American readers, who include politicos in and out of power, intellectuals, artists and industrialists, this issue of TIME will have a special significance. It marks the 15th anniversary of the founding of the airmail edition, the first of our four foreign editions...