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WHILE President Eisenhower was still in Key West, Brazil's President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek visited the White House especially to learn how the Administration's staff system operates. When he expressed this wish, presidential aides produced a copy of TIME'S Jan. 9 issue, with a portrait of White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams on the cover, and opened it to our report on the White House office and its staff, illustrated with a chart by R. M. Chapin Jr. This, Ike's aides told their distinguished guest, was the latest and most accurate picture...
Soon after the election, Kubitschek announced his plans for a foreign tour before inauguration day (Jan. 31). Besides winning attention abroad for Brazil's crucial economic problems, he wanted to dispel the notion that he is a leftist with links of some sort to Brazil's illegal Communist Party. Kubitschek is actually a middle-roader, a founding member of the moderately conservative Social Democratic Party, but he accepted a leftish Labor Party leader as his vice-presidential running mate. On top of that, he failed to reject the Communist Party's bandwagon-climbing endorsement. Inevitably, opponents labeled...
Doctor's Opinion. During his busy three days in Washington, Kubitschek lost no opportunity to press his case. He packed in two state dinners (hosts: Vice President Richard Nixon, Secretary Dulles) and a frantic round of handshaking and speechmaking. Everywhere he stressed the point that Brazil remains a staunch friend of the U.S., with both feet firmly in the camp of democracy. The U.S.'s "stimulating atmosphere of freedom and progress," he said, "could but strengthen, were it necessary, my profound democratic convictions and my confidence in the fortunes of the free world to which our two nations...
...made his biggest hit of all as speaker at a luncheon at the National Press Club, which has been called "the most cynical audience in the world." Said President-elect Kubitschek, to appreciative laughter and applause: "Yesterday I had the great pleasure of visiting President Eisenhower at Key West. I first met him in 1946, in Brazil, while I was a member of Congress. I can assure you that he does not look ten years older. He looks great. I say that in my capacity as a physician...
...latest official count: 3,060,754 votes (36% of the total) for Kubitschek, to 2,591,148 for the runner...