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Portugal's ascetic Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar made one of his rare TV appearances last week (on film) to answer African demands that Portugal abandon its colonies. Having learned nothing and forgotten nothing, Salazar took a predictable stand: Portugal will go to war rather than budge in Africa...
...that Admiral George W. Anderson Jr. would not be reappointed as Chief of Naval Operations, President Kennedy promised that Anderson would be given a post of "high responsibility. " Last week, after an hour's talk with Anderson, the President picked the new job: Ambassador to Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazars Portugal...
...leaders in Addis Ababa last week vociferously supported Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella's call to "establish a bond of blood" with the Angolan nationalists. The war is a grievous burden for tiny Portugal, which already has Western Europe's lowest living standard. But Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. 74, is by now too deeply committed to preservation of Angola as a "province" of Portugal to yield the Africans even token self-government without imperiling his own 31-year reign in Lisbon. Despite the steady rise in the guerrillas' strength and effectiveness, Salazar's best hope...
Salgueiro's theme this year is the tale of Dom João Fernandes de Oliveira, a Portuguese nobleman who arrived in Brazil in 1761 with a royal deed to Brazil's richest diamond mine, Tijuco, in the landlocked interior state of Minas Gerais. To Dom João's castle, Brazil's most aristocratic mothers brought their loveliest daughters. But Dom João spurned them all for a Negro slave girl named Chica da Silva. Dom João fell madly in love, bought Chica and installed her as head of his household...
...money on transportation to Rome, and reached the Vatican hungry. There was Pittsburgh's Bishop John Wright, who many Roman Catholic laymen believe will be the next U.S. cardinal. There was a former fisherman (Rufino Cardinal Santos of Manila) and a former count (Ernesto Sena de Oliveira of Portugal). There was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Communist Poland, who raised a finger to his lips to hush those who were cheering him. There were, in all, 2,700 of them-the spiritual leaders of 500 million people. And in the rear of the procession, carried on a gilded throne...