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Brazilian army leaders carried out their bloodless "preventive revolution" (TIME. Nov. 21) with the avowed intention of seeing to it that President-elect Juscelino Kubitschtk is duly inaugurated on Jan. 31. But are they also willing to guarantee the inauguration of leftish, controversial Vice President-elect Joao Goulart? The many Brazilians who dislike and mistrust "Jango" Goulart were eager to believe rumors that army chiefs would try to pressure him into resigning his claim to the vice-presidency. In a statement to the press last week, War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott squelched the rumors. "If the electoral tribunal declares Senhor...
...middle: "Sorry, sir, the paper has been discontinued." Left March. The staunch Tory politics of the Kemsley Glasgow papers will veer left of center under New Owner King, who considers himself an independent liberal. "That means I can be any thing I want," he explains candidly. "The Mirror is leftish, of course, but we've been moving right for the past two years...
...turn. Under Brazil's rules permitting ticket-splitting, hundreds of thousands of voters who decided for Candidate Barros also voted for Candidate Tavora's running mate, an able jurist named Milton Campos. At week's end Campos was so close behind Kubitschek's running mate, leftish João ("Jango") Goulart, that the contest was still in doubt...
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...
When Sutton talks about Kefauver, which is most of the time, he talks tough. Some of his charges are extravagant, but they are hard on Estes. He accuses Kefauver of being "leftish," and a one-worlder. Sutton has also made race an issue by quoting from a Negro newspaper that reported Kefauver as saying during his futile 1952 presidential bid that there would be no segregation if he were elected. Says Sutton: "We don't know if that's still the way he feels. He hasn't said. He was running for President then...