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Adhemar's entry in effect turns the Brazilian election into a three-way race. The other top contenders are Governor Juscelino Kubitschek of Minas Gerais state, heir to the leftish populista forces of the late President Getulio Vargas, and General Juarez Tavora, hero of the conservative military leaders whose determination to clean up the mess in Rio led to Vargas' resignation and suicide last year. But rumors were louder than ever in Rio last week that the officers would postpone the election unless their man seems likely...
...dead and Café Filho barred by the constitution from running for President, two new star performers, both of them state governors, have moved" into the center ring of the Brazilian political circus. Both are spellbinding orators and accomplished platform actors, though their styles are notably different. Buoyant Juscelino Kubitschek, 53, veteran governor of Minas Gerais, dresses well and exudes hearty confidence. São Paulo's shrewd Jânio Quadros, 37, once labeled "the most talented actor in the history...
Brazilian politics," ostentatiously wears shabby clothes and the sorrowful look of a much-kicked dog. Neither man is in the grip of an ideology; what makes both of them run is the attraction of political office with the Presidency at the end of the track. Kubitschek (TIME, Feb. 21) is a hard-running presidential candidate. Quadros (TIME, Nov. 1) is passing up the race this time, but from the sidelines he has greatly improved Kubitschek's prospects...
Brassbound General. Brazil's top military leaders are staunchly opposed to Candidate Kubitschek because he was politically linked with Getulio Vargas. After Kubitschek won the nomination of the Social Democratic Party, headed by Vargas' son-in-law, a coalition of right-and-center party leaders, backed by Café Filho and the generals, decided to put up brainy General Juarez Távora, Café Filho's chief military adviser and by reputation a man of brassbound integrity...
General Távora protested that he had been innocently unaware of the deal, but Governor Quadros promptly denied that. Warned by his fellow generals to get out of the race, Távora announced that he had decided not to run. Shattered, the anti-Kubitschek coalition lamely chose a substitute presidential candidate: Etelvino Lins, onetime governor of the state of Pernambuco and leader of a dissident faction of Kubitschek's own party. Meanwhile, Juscelino Kubitschek, having, duly resigned as governor of Minas Gerais, was wearing a big, confident smile...