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...give-'em-hell" speech. Reaching into his coat pocket, he pulled out a sandwich and began to munch it in full view of his audience. Then, with ostentatious frugality, he wrapped the crumby remainder in paper and carefully stowed it away again. He was vote-catching Jânio Quadros, candidate for governor of São Paulo. Brazil's richest state...
...nio Quadros has mastered a wide repertory of such theatrical tricks. He snuffs out a cheap cigarette before beginning a speech, tucks the butt behind his ear, then lights it again when he is done talking. He calls himself "the poorest of Brazilian politicians because I am the most honest." In keeping with that role, he goes about clad in a brink-of-tears manner and threadbare, ill-fitting clothes...
...nio's gifted hamming has taken him a long way. Eight years ago he was a high-school history teacher. Last week, at 37, after a year and a half as the efficient mayor of the booming city of São Paulo, he won the governorship election...
...Weight for All. In the most important single race in Brazil's nationwide elections (TIME, Oct. 18), Underdog Quadros was up against ex-Governor Adhemar de Barros. Jânio and Adhemar are both magnificently mustachioed, and Adhemar is almost as expert as Jânio at platform histrionics, but there the resemblance ends. Adhemar, 53, multimillionaire proprietor of a well-oiled political machine, is expensively tailored, hearty of mien and exuberant of speech...
...located! Some years ago, R. L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles at the Bronx Zoo and one of the world's foremost experts on snakes, made an offer of $1,000 for a skin in excess of 40 ft., but no such skin ever materialized. Dr. Afrānio do Amaral, director of the Butantan Institute (snake farm) in Sao Paulo, has reported an anaconda a little over 25 ft. in length, and this appears to be the world's record...