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...Juscelino Kubitschek got himself elected President with the help of Vargas' party, Lacerda fomented a coup to prevent Kubitschek from taking office; only a countercoup by loyal army officers upset the plot. All the while, Lacerda was blistering Jânio Quadros, then governor of Sāo Paulo, whom he called "a paranoiac," "a delirious virtuoso of felony," "the Brazilian version of Adolf Hitler." The two called off the feud long enough to cooperate in the 1960 elections, Quadros winning the presidency and Lacerda the Guanabara governorship. No sooner was Quadros in office, however, than Lacerda...
Figueres said he felt that Goulart's statement in Sao Paulo Monday, which seemed in Sao Paul Monday, which seemed to exclude the United States from the proposed economic alliance, might be the prelude to some "long overdue revisions of the whole economic relationship between industrial and non industrial nations...
...straight from his tidy chest of portfolios, went on show in the new quarters of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (see opposite page). Two years ago, few people outside his native Germany had ever heard of Bissier; it took a major prize at the São Paulo Bienal in 1961 to establish him abroad as the leading abstractionist of small harmonies...
...fierce inflationary spiral, the country's cost of living soared 45% between January and August, while the value of the cruzeiro tumbled 14%. At one point last week, 30 major walkouts were under way or immediately threatened-a streetcar strike in Rio, a railroad strike in Sao Paulo, a bank strike throughout the country...
...side. The labor unions, which brought him to political power, denounce him for resisting impossible wage boosts. Last month loyal army troops put down a flash rebellion of air force and navy noncoms. On the right, the two most powerful state governors, Guanabara's Carlos Lacerda and Sao Paulo's Adhemar de Barros, talk about taking matters in their own hands-and point ominously to some 70,000 state troops at their command. Last week Lacerda told a reporter for the Los Angeles Times that he expected total collapse before long. "I don't think this thing...