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Before dawn, the tanks clanked into position in Rio. Censors took over the press, cables, radio and TV. Those who protested too loudly were summarily arrested. On the evening of the first day, retired Field Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, who ran unsuccessfully for President last year with Goulart as his running mate, telephoned War Minister Denys and demanded that he obey the constitution. Denys refused...
...results made political history. Quadros piled up 5,500,000 votes. 1,700,000 more than Lott, closest to an absolute majority (48%) in Brazil's multipartied history. Then he traveled to London for the eye-straightening operation that would have been denounced as silly vanity during the campaign, but was accepted as necessary for the President of a proud nation. He stayed away twelve weeks, so long that Brazilians coined their own slogan: "Where's Jânio?" But when he returned, only eleven days before inauguration, he was ready for action, complete with an imposing Cabinet...
...elect a new President, the expected tight race turned into no contest at all. With better than half the vote counted, Opposition Candidate Jânio da Silva Quadros, 43, held a huge 1,600,000-vote lead over the incumbent administration's man, Field Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, and seemed certain to roll up the greatest plurality in history. Quadros not only won his home state of São Paulo, he also jumped ahead in Lott's own state of Minas Gerais and won the no man's land in between. Said Quadros...
...Image. Lott's main problem in early campaigning was his dullness. Stolid and rigid, with cold blue eyes and a piping voice that made him sound slightly ridiculous, he left his audiences unimpressed. In midcampaign, however, he switched tactics. He struggled to lower his voice a few notes, assumed the role of a wise parent, and at the same time began pepping up his campaign with vicious personal attacks on Quadros. He called Quadros everything from insane to dictatorial, said that Quadros' election would lead to bloody civil war, charged that Quadros was trying to buy the election...
...switch has helped. When the campaign started, Public Works Minister Ernani do Amaral Peixoto, appointed by Kubitschek's Social Democratic Party to coordinate Lott's candidacy, sadly reported to friends that "Lott is unelectable." Urged to expand his campaign itinerary, Candidate Quadros chuckled: "That's all right. Marshal Lott will visit places I can't visit myself, and win them for me." But by last week the lively new Lott was closing so fast that he had Brazilian political experts convinced that he was still solidly in the race...