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Prestes asked the astonished presiding officer, white-haired Senator Fernando de Melo Viana, for permission to speak. He talked long enough to fill 16 newspaper rolumns. He denied rumors that he was conspiring against the Government with former President Getulio Vargas, and he praised Dictator Perón's variety of democracy in Argentina, where the Communist Party is legal...
...overblown eloquence of gesture and voice in tragic opera and the grim melo-naturalism of a modern police state are shrewdly used to enhance each other. The opera house serves, too, as a huge, machine-like symbol of a nation. Opera lovers will dote on the Puccini sound track, but moviegoers who have no special affection for opera are likely to find the protracted, underlighted operatic sequences dull. There is, however, some good fierce melodrama which almost anyone can enjoy...
...Brazil's enlightened Indian policy. Said full-blooded Chief Cachirere to part-Indian General Rondon: "Old Father, I come to tell you that a white man bought 2,986 kilograms of quartz crystal from the Javaes Indians and did not pay for it. The man is Lauro Melo and he lives at Rua Machado de Assis...
...mercy of the Lord, and at the Gloria, Go Down, Moses proclaims His glory. For the profession of faith at the Credo there is the theme of Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel. At the Sanctus and Benedictus ("Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord") are the melo dies of Goin' Home and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and at the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) the devout and placid music of Deep River...
Nelson de Melo, democratically-inclined Chief of the Federal Police, was fired. His job was handed to Coriolano de Goes. As Police Chief of São Paulo, De Goes had machine-gunned a crowd of São Paulo students who plumped for representative government last November. Three were killed, 20 wounded. When Correio da Manhã, Rio de Janeiro daily, sneaked some criticism of the Goes appointment into its editorial columns, it was promptly slapped by the Government with a whopping fine...