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Twelve million Brazilian voters next week will choose one of two conservatives -São Paulo's former Governor Jânio Quadros, 43, or retired Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 65-as President of Brazil. Such are the ground rules of Brazilian politics that hardly a voter will realize that he is casting his ballot for a conservative; ever since the campaign began early this year, each camp has spent close to $5,000,000 convincing Brazil that its man is an ardent leftist, a welfare statist and a Brazil-firster...
Stumping for President, Quadros put aside the undignified platform gimmicks he used in state politics. He combed his hair, tightened his tie, brushed the dandruff off his shoulders, and never once pulled a sandwich from his pocket in mid-harangue. He avoided personal attacks on Lott, refused to sling corruption charges indiscriminately...
Work v. Talent. Marshal Lott is much less flamboyant than even the new Quadros. He began his military career methodically, slogging through military school by dint of grueling hard work. Once he complained to his English-descended father about a brilliant classmate who was always getting the best marks in class. "He has talent," said Cadet Lott. "Yes," said his father, "but if you study hard you will conquer talent...
...Lott studied his way to top spot in his class, but took 30 years to reach a rather undistinguished colonelcy. It took another 14 years to reach the War Ministry, where his rigid devotion to duty led him to stage his 1955 "preventive coup" to ensure the threatened inauguration of constitutionally elected President Juscelino Kubitschek...
...example is Grosse Point High School's Tony Lott, accepted by Dartmouth, although he scored 470 on the English achievement test. He weighs 202 Ibs. and is a varsity football guard. (He "might" go out for football at Dartmouth.) Walter Empson of Hillcrest High School in Dallas averaged only 600 on the tests, but was president of the student council and a star basketball player. His letter from Princeton was no surprise: "The coach told me some time ago that I was pretty well in." This sort of thing evokes the words of a top Eastern college representative...