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...surprisingly abdicated Brazil's presidency and took a slow boat around the world, six months after his return to an uncertain political future, unstable, unpredictable J?nio Quadros, 45, was hard on the comeback campaign trail last week, running for his old job as governor of S?o Paulo state...
...never been away. Crowds saw the same disheveled hair, rumpled suit, and sweeping gestures, and heard the same messianic utterances. He promised them economic reform, abolition of large landholdings, curbs on foreign investments. "This is the campaign for the redemption of S?o Paulo and Brazil," he declared. He blasted the "powerful groups" and "foreign interests" that drove President Getulio Vargas, he said, "to suicide and led me to resignation...
...beginning of the campaign, Quadros fluttered along with little following and no real backing. His old ally and successor, S?o Paulo's incumbent Governor Carvalho Pinto, had already thrown his support to José Bonifacio Nogueira, 39, the state's aristocratic agriculture secretary, and had lined up a formidable coalition including the National Democratic Union and Christian Democrats, two parties that in the past had backed Quadros. President Jo?o ("Jango") Goulart's Labor Party organization in S?o Paulo was also behind Bonifacio, although Goulart himself has been silent. Bonifacio is running on Governor Carvalho Pinto's impressive record...
...endemic in Brazil; 2,644 cases were reported in 1960, and 1,411 in 1961. Near Laranjeiras the Orrs had visited a ranch where children were down with the pox, but nobody paid much heed or knew what kind.* By the time the Orrs got to bustling, ultramodern Sao Paulo, 400 miles away, James William Orr, 14, complained of fever and a sore throat. A local doctor diagnosed influenza and hopefully dosed him vith medicine. The feverish boy lay around Viracopos airport for hours before he flew, with 82 other travelers, on a Comet 4 jet to Idlewild...
Daily mob scenes in Buenos Aires are part of a revolution in food retailing that is lowering prices and raising living standards around the world. From Singapore to São Paulo, the old corner grocery tradition of small volume and high markups is being washed out by the made-in-U.S.A. idea of mass marketing...