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Firecrackers popped and bands blared at Rio's international airport last week. It was 107° in the shade. A yelling, flag-waving mob broke through the police cordon and surged forward to greet President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek, returning from a slashing three-week tour of the U.S. and nine European nations with bolstered prestige and a handsome collection of medals...
Carried on men's shoulders from Constellation to open Cadillac. Kubitschek rode triumphantly down Rio's streets, trailed by trucks and buses jammed with cheering fans. Beside him sat blue-eyed Julia Kubitschek, 83. weeping happily at the homage paid to her only son. In Rio's parklike Prac.a Floriano, decorated with strings of blue lights, the President-elect listened patiently to ten welcoming speeches. Cheers and firecrackers punctuated his own 25-minute speech. "Promises made will be kept," he vowed. Meanwhile, preparations went ahead for this week's inauguration ceremonies. On the program...
...from chilly skepticism to outright rebuff. Snorted Cuba's U.N. delegate: "What the Russians want is to place spies and agitators in Latin America." Snapped Santiago's El Mercurio: "The U.S.S.R. is making a false offer in an attempt to extend its tyranny." In Rome, Traveler Juscelino Kubitschek spoke as the President-elect of Latin America's biggest nation: "We know from past experience that the Russians never give anything without trying to take at least twice as much in return...
...Kubitschek," said John L. Steele, our White House correspondent, "sat on a couch in Dwight Eisenhower's office and studied Chapin's chart. After that, in a skull session which may serve him well in setting up his own administration in Brazil, he followed the chart, actually walking from office to office to trace the course that a piece of executive business would take to the President's desk...
President-elect Kubitschek is not the first to discover how well Bob Chapin's charts and maps can clarify a subject, from geography or medicine to economics or government. Among the reprint requests that come to my office each month, many ask permission to use TIME'S charts and maps. Since Chapin joined our staff in 1937, his work has been reproduced by foreign governments, the U.S. State Department, Air Force, Army, Navy, numerous universities, and publishers of textbooks and encyclopedias. At the moment he is devoting his spare " time to a four-color map in global perspective...