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...people of the United States are ready to assume world leadership. When will they realize that with that leadership comes the responsibility for conditions such as those described by Carolina Maria de Jesus [in her best-selling book, Quarto de Despejo, about life in the São Paulo favela, or slum...
...Silva Quadros, 43, held a huge 1,600,000-vote lead over the incumbent administration's man, Field Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, and seemed certain to roll up the greatest plurality in history. Quadros not only won his home state of São Paulo, he also jumped ahead in Lott's own state of Minas Gerais and won the no man's land in between. Said Quadros in a message to his nation: "Without reservations or hate, I call on all Brazilians to labor for the common welfare...
...partly honest." At parochial prep school (Quadros is a practicing Catholic), the tall youth with the oddly staring eyes* was so rebellious that he learned large chunks of Ovid and Horace by heart in after-school punishment time. After a shaky start in law school at São Paulo's state university, he went through his final years with top marks, married a beautiful girl who at first glance thought him "the ugliest man I ever met," and started off on his career...
...confusing lengths to promote images of himself calculated to please everyone. He has also switched from the name-calling, highly personal campaign style that carried him in seven years from a high school classroom (where he taught history, geography and Portuguese literature) to the governorship of São Paulo, Brazil's richest, most powerful state. As Governor, he spent liberally on public works that now support the nation's most bustling industrial complex (steel, automobiles, appliances)-but also got rid of some 15,000 featherbedding state workers...
...Communists he pointed to his trip last year to Moscow and hinted at possible recognition of Russia and Red China; before nationalists he flayed bloodsucking foreign exploiters. As President, he would probably run the same kind of businesslike, economical, development-minded government that he built in São Paulo...