Word: lucilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty but sad-eyed teen-age girl hobbled on crutches into the office of the President of Brazil one day last week. President Joāo Café Filho greeted her with a smile, pointed to a chair beside his ornate jacaranda-wood desk. Lucilla Carvalho sat down and told her story. Her leg had been amputated in an effort to halt cancer, and doctors had told her she would die unless she went to the U.S. for treatment. Could the President help...
...This is one thing I can do," said the President. "I wish I could always say yes." He jotted a note instructing the federal Cancer Institute to arrange a visit to the U.S. for Lucilla. "You will be well, my child," he said. "You will see a beautiful country, and maybe you'll marry an American. Send me a postcard from time to time." Hope gleamed in Lucilla's eyes...
Sympathy for a Poetess. Lucilla was one of more than 100 visitors who streamed into the President's office that day. Keeping up a practice he began while he was Brazil's Vice President. Café Filho opens his door to the public one day every week. Any Brazilian who wants to talk to the President simply goes to Cattete Palace in Rio and writes his name and address in a book. When his name comes up, a presidential aide summons him to the palace by telegram...