Word: kubitscheks
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...pale, slender man in white tie and black tailcoat. "I swear," he said, tense with emotion, "to uphold, defend and obey the Constitution of the Republic, and to maintain its union, integrity and independence." Intoned the presiding officer of the Chamber of Deputies: "I proclaim you, Juscelino Kubitschek, President of the Republic for a period of five years...
...President," said Ramos, "you are taking over the government of the Republic in an hour of great changes and great hopes." And with that, Juscelino Kubitschek, 54, sometime practicing physician and surgeon, last week took up the burden of governing a half-formed, painfully growing giant of a nation, greater in area than the U.S., greater in its 58 million population than France or Britain, but still a Land of the Future, its past a tangle of good intentions and bad techniques, its present clouded and uncertain...
...made his countrymen a vast promise-not merely to cope with the old, urgent problems of sprinting inflation and nagging debts, but to push and pull the nation a long way toward the bright dream of tomorrow-in his own phrase, to achieve "Fifty Years' Progress in Five." Kubitschek is a man with a political flair and a remarkable capacity for work; he will need both...
...decree an end to the despised press censorship imposed by the interim administration last November. A few days later he asked Congress to lift the state of siege as of Feb. 15, ten days ahead of schedule. As a gesture to show that he expects no violence, Kubitschek plans to send back to other duties the plainclothes detail assigned to guard him. "I rely on this more than any bodyguard." he told a friend, patting a German-made .25-caliber automatic hidden beneath his well-tailored jacket...
...Catete Palace next day, Kubitschek met with Vice President Richard Nixon and Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland, to discuss Brazil's need for U.S. help in jacking up its economy and coping with Communist penetration efforts. Afterwards, Holland remarked: "No doubt about it, this appears to be the best government to deal with that Brazil has ever had." Said Nixon in a speech at the Volta Redonda steel plant the following day: "I confidently believe that Brazil is on the threshold of an era of progress unequaled in history by any nation in this Hemisphere. I am confident...