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...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...
...cruzeiro ($55,000) reward to anyone who could prove him a thief. Taking a broom as his campaign's cleanup symbol, Quadros appealed to the downtrodden with such rabble-rousing slogans as "War on the Corrupt Rich!" It was a close race, undecided until last week; Jânio's margin was a mere 18,304 votes out of nearly 2,000,000 cast. Promised Jânio in his victory speech: "I will protect and defend the working class and the poor. There will be one weight and one measure...
Gloves for Garbagemen. Jânio's triumph brought into startling prominence in Brazil an unpredictable personality who owes allegiance to no party but has never lost an election, who sometimes talks like a two-cruzeiro demagogue but insists that "all my intellectual formation is based on Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln." He began his political climb in 1946 by winning a seat in the São Paulo city council with the help of worshipful pupils and ex-pupils. From there he went on to the state legislature, where he sponsored a record 2,007 bills (60 passed, including...
...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...