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Returning to Belo Horizonte broadened and polished by travel, he married the pretty, dark-eyed daughter of a wealthy politician. The marriage was happy. "He has not always been a perfect husband.'' Sarah Kubitschek said secretly. "But after all. perfection is dull." The Kubitscheks have two children. Márcia and Maristela, both twelve. Márcia was born to them; they adopted Maristela five years later, to spare Márcia an only child's loneliness...
...Call to Politics. Prospering Surgeon Kubitschek became increasingly absorbed in politics as years went by, serving as secretary of the state government and later as a federal deputy. In 1940 the governor of Minas Gerais named him mayor of Belo Horizonte. With that, Kubitschek gave up surgery altogether...
...Line. Soon after the Labor Party endorsed Kubitschek, the illegal Brazilian Communist Party stopped calling him a lackey of big business and, in a characteristic display of party-line acrobatics, endorsed him for President. Outlawed by Congress in 1947 (Kubitschek was among the Deputies who voted in favor of the ban), the party still has an estimated 60,000 members and many non-Communists fellow-travel its line. Eager for votes, Kubitschek failed to reject the Red endorsement-a piece of opportunism that has already made trouble for him and is likely to make more...
...presidential campaign, Kubitschek used the same methods that had won him the governorship: go to the voters, hit even the little, out-of-the-way towns that other candidates skip, invite questions, have an answer for everything. He chartered a DC-3, fitted it out as a combination office, bedroom and conference room, covered 100,000 miles in the most strenuous search for votes in the annals of Brazilian politics. His wife Sarah organized women's J-J (Juscelino-Jango) clubs throughout the country, made speeches on TV, kept up her husband's morale with her cheerful, unflagging...
...four candidates in the race for the Presidency, two were moralizers and two materialists, General Juarez Távora and Right-Winger Plinio Salgado, both considered deeply religious, vowed to clean up corruption. Juscelino Kubitschek and rich, Falstaffan Adhemar de Barros, both M.D.s, former state governors and practical politicians, vowed to raise living standards. Barros ran well ahead of Kubitschek in the big cities; Kubitschek piled up his plurality in the inland towns and farm villages, where the P.S.D. machine operated most efficiently, and where most of the voters had laid eyes on no other presidential candidate. The final count...