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...tape that keeps patients out of hospitals permits Lisbon's director of public health to gain credit with budget-minded Salazar by returning part of his appropriation to the national treasury each year...
...same bureaucracy lets the older half of Lisbon (which had survived the 1755 earthquake) wallow. A few blocks from the grandiose and spotless Rocio, Lisbon's counterpart of Times Square, the Old Town's slums have no electricity, running water or sewage. Once a day street cleaners climb up & down Castello de Sao Jorge hill, where generations of shuffling bare feet have polished the cobbles satin-smooth. An hour after the cleaners have passed, the same steep, crooked passages are foul with refuse...
...fall when he suddenly proclaimed freedom of the press and free elections for a new National Assembly. After a few days' hesitation, opposition groups which had scarcely suspected one another's existence came out of the underground. Two weeks after the proclamation, in a rented schoolroom on Lisbon's Rua do Bemformoso, the first meeting of the Movimento Unidade Democratica (M.U.D.) was held. Much to M.U.D.'s surprise, supporters poured in by the thousands. Every paper except two Government sheets supported M.U.D. in a campaign of invective against Salazar, who was shocked by the hatred...
...first unpalatable taste of politics. National finances were in chaos after 20 changes of government in five years. Salazar was invited to come to Lisbon to straighten them out. He took a look at the parliamentary confusion and, in deep disgust, demanded a free hand with the Treasury. Refused, he caught the next train back to the sedge-lined banks of the Mondego. He expressed his contempt for Lisbon's attempts at democracy and said that "one of the greatest mistakes of the 19th Century (which created the 'citizen'-an individual isolated from the family, the class...
...flowers on his desk. He works until 1 p.m. With a light lunch he has port, usually diluted, and never more than three-quarters of a glass. After lunch he rests and takes an hour's walk, sometimes with his adopted daughters, sometimes alone and unguarded on Lisbon's streets. At 4 he returns to his office and works till 7:30. All important decisions of all Ministries are made by Salazar...