Word: nio
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...inflationary troubles, still the strongest Latin American nation and most resistant to propaganda from Cuba. What little admiration Brazilians feel for Castro arises mostly out of the Cuban dictator's role as a fearless tweaker of Uncle Sam's nose-a role that President-elect Jânio Quadros appropriated last week by ignoring the invitation of President Eisenhower and refusing the invitation of President-elect Kennedy to visit...
...million Brazilians went to the polls last week to elect a new President, the expected tight race turned into no contest at all. With better than half the vote counted, Opposition Candidate Jânio da Silva Quadros, 43, held a huge 1,600,000-vote lead over the incumbent administration's man, Field Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, and seemed certain to roll up the greatest plurality in history. Quadros not only won his home state of São Paulo, he also jumped ahead in Lott's own state of Minas Gerais...
Brilliance & Temperament. In Jânio Quadros, Brazil got a curious blend of introvert and extravert, a man of wide learning whose political thought borrows from Lincoln and Jefferson, who is a hardworking, conservative-minded public servant in office, yet who campaigns with a ward politician's gallus-snapping appeal for the mass vote, promising all things to all men. He is a man whose life has been studded with flaring spurts of brilliance and temperament. The son of an upcountry gynecologist with roving ways who was finally shot dead at 68 by the irate husband...
Twelve million Brazilian voters next week will choose one of two conservatives -São Paulo's former Governor Jânio Quadros, 43, or retired Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 65-as President of Brazil. Such are the ground rules of Brazilian politics that hardly a voter will realize that he is casting his ballot for a conservative; ever since the campaign began early this year, each camp has spent close to $5,000,000 convincing Brazil that its man is an ardent leftist, a welfare statist and a Brazil-firster...
Switch Talker. On his own behalf, Jânio Quadros has gone to extreme and confusing lengths to promote images of himself calculated to please everyone. He has also switched from the name-calling, highly personal campaign style that carried him in seven years from a high school classroom (where he taught history, geography and Portuguese literature) to the governorship of São Paulo, Brazil's richest, most powerful state. As Governor, he spent liberally on public works that now support the nation's most bustling industrial complex (steel, automobiles, appliances)-but also got rid of some...