Word: nio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congratulations to TIME for your revealing cover story on Jánio Quadros-bem feito...
...Gabriel, made life miserable for them both. Gabriel, says one of Quadros' close friends, "was abnormal-a real villain with a mania for women, displaying constant aggressiveness toward his son and wife." Pursued by bill collectors, the family flitted from town to town, until at 16 Jânio was finally allowed to settle in São Paulo. He took a year's course in education, started teaching part time (for 12? per hour), and enrolled in São Paulo's highly respected School...
...with exactly $2,212 in the bank, $12.5 million in unpaid bills, and a budget deficit of $6,000,000 for 1952. He fired 10% of all functionaries, cut nonessential spending, ended political payoffs, started 200 corruption investigations. In his outer office he hung a sign: "Sr. Jânio Quadros does not provide city jobs. Please don't waste your time and his insisting." He sold off the city fleet of 40 limousines (São Paulo's morticians snapped them up), even banned coffee breaks-in the coffee capital of the world. "If I give...
...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 of Brazil's best planners, builders, and conservative penny pinchers...
...hand on his breast: "Your place is here, in my heart." Quadros found a more practical place for Carlos Castello Branco, a political reporter whom he grilled for more than two hours on the frailties of 30 top politicians. "Castello, you have a dirty tongue," said Jânio after the grilling. Next day, he hired him as his press chief...