Word: nio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Antônio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, 81, Portuguese neurologist, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949 as the first man to devise an operation for the treatment of mental disorders (the prefrontal lobotomy), Portuguese Foreign Minister from 1918-19; in Lisbon...
Born the son of a Portuguese carpenter and a Negro slave, António Francisco grew up in the 18th century gold-rush town of Ouro Preto. There, under the harsh rule of whiplashing, saber-swinging Portuguese dragoons, both blacks and whites labored to sluice and pan over $8,000,000 in gold and diamonds from the fabulous mines of Minas Gerais. Most of the gold went to the Portuguese Crown, but the little that the miners gleaned for themselves made them rich. To prove their piety, the miners embarked on a church-building spree that created some...
...have moved" into the center ring of the Brazilian political circus. Both are spellbinding orators and accomplished platform actors, though their styles are notably different. Buoyant Juscelino Kubitschek, 53, veteran governor of Minas Gerais, dresses well and exudes hearty confidence. São Paulo's shrewd Jânio Quadros, 37, once labeled "the most talented actor in the history...
...Brazilian constitution requires that state governors who intend to run for President resign at least six months before election day. As the April resignation deadline neared, Jânio Quadros passed the word that he was thinking of running. It was highly doubtful whether Quadros really intended to give up the governorship of Brazil's richest state only six months after his election in order to run a long-shot race for the Presidency, but his cold-blooded bluff panicked the leaders of the Távora alliance. Asked to name his price for staying out, Quadros unblinkingly demanded...
...Adhemar learned to his sorrow last week, he wildly underestimated Jânio's appeal to the discontented. Now that the appeal has been proved in a crucial statewide election, a lot of Brazilians-some with hope and some with fear-think that Jânio, rather than Adhemar, is São Paulo's likeliest future candidate for President...