Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Vargas fell, another way presented itself: politics, where offbeat appearance can sometimes be an advantage. "When he first got the idea, I was very dubious," Eloá says. In his first race, in 1947, he fetched up 47th on the list of candidates for 45 São Paulo city council seats. Only when the Communist Party was outlawed and 14 of the winners were eliminated did Quadros get a seat...
...traded for things. I want all the prisoners freed." In Montevideo, the publishers of Uruguay's biggest papers called Castro a "slave runner" and put a tractor on a downtown platform to dramatize a fund-raising drive. Brazil's staid, respected O Estado de Sāo Paulo promised to buy one tractor itself, and was immediately flooded with offers of help from readers; some 2,000 students paraded through the city to raise funds. A man who said he was too poor to send money sent a set of tractor gears. In nearly every country...
General Humberto Delgado, 54, Portugal's most celebrated revolutionary, has lived in exile in São Paulo, Brazil for the past two years. An air force general and longtime supporter of the regime, Delgado struck out for himself in 1958 when he broke all the rules by campaigning seriously for the presidency of Portugal in one of Salazar's mock elections. There were plenty of issues to campaign on. After 29 years of Salazar's glacial rule, literacy barely reaches 60%, the tuberculosis rate is almost double that of any other Western European country...
...Paulo last week, Delgado celebrated the coup with convivial glasses of red Portuguese wine, raisins and crackers. Chatting happily with newsmen, he answered overseas phone calls and fired off stirring communiqués informing the U.S. and Britain that the capture of the Santa Maria "does not represent mutiny or piracy but only the seizure of Portuguese transport by Portuguese to fulfill Portuguese political objectives." The act, he cried, "will contribute greatly to the liberation of Portugal" and prepare the way for setting up a "provisional government...