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...lost by the P.D.S. was the governor's race in the wealthy state of Sao Paulo (pop. 25 million), the teeming industrial hub that produces about 40% of Brazil's $283 billion gross domestic product. The likely winner in São Paulo was Andre Franco Montoro, 66, candidate of the center-left Brazilian Democratic Movement (P.M.D.B.). Said Montoro of his assumed victory: "Our only commitment is to substitute democratic practice for the abuse of power...
That was six too many. "After two years and in the middle of an election campaign," stormed M.D.B. President Franco Montoro, "this measure shrieks to the heavens." Even Adauto Cardoso, president of the Chamber of Deputies and a key ARENA leader, registered his hot protest. "Only after consulting the directors of the House and the vote of the majority of the Deputies," Cardoso announced, "will I feel authorized to declare the extinction of the mandates." Congressional leaders promptly summoned Deputies back to Brasilia for a vote. Angrily, Castello Branco in effect ordered ARENA members to stay just where they were...
Born. To Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 22, only child of the 17th Duke, of Alba (Spain's top nobleman and ex-Ambassador to Britain) whose wedding last October cost $300,000' and Don Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazoz 27, blueblooded onetime able seaman in Franco's navy: their first child, a son; in Madrid
...Duke & Duchess of Montoro, married last fortnight in a Seville ceremony surrounded by a splendor of plush and fine feathers (TIME, Oct. 20), arrived in Manhattan on their honeymoon, looking glad to be out of it all even if they were the daughter of the Duke of Alba and the fourth son of the Duke of Sotomayor...
Married. Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 21, dark-haired daughter of the Duke of Alba, enormously wealthy ex-Ambassador to Britain and one of the world's most formidably titled men -six times a duke, 18 times a count, twelve times a marquess, 15 times a grandee of Spain; and Luis Martinez Irujo y Artazcoz, 26, fourth son of the Duke of Sotomayor; in Seville...