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Died. Arthur da Silva Bernardes, 70, onetime (1922-26) President of Brazil and indefatigable opponent of foreign-capital operations in Brazil; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Outspoken, scrupulously honest Politico Bernardes was exiled and later pardoned by President Getulio Vargas for his part in the unsuccessful São Paulo revolt in 1932, in later years was widely hailed as the elder statesman of Brazilian nationalism and as a major influence behind the 1953 petroleum bill, which closed Brazil's oil resources to foreign companies...
...businessman, pink-faced Edward Lamb of Toledo is a thumping success. He presides over a varied collection of two dozen companies, six radio and TV stations and the Erie (Pa.) Dispatch. As an amateur politico, Lamb has had almost as varied a career. In the '30s and early '40s his name popped up on the membership lists of several fellow-traveling outfits, e.g., the International Labor Defense. In 1948 he supported Dewey. In 1952 he backed the Democrats...
Stag Dinner. The results of the 1954 congressional election helped to convince Ike that his political experience and instincts were just as reliable as those of any politico. He decided that the time had come for him to strike hard for the kind of Republican Party that he wanted. First he called in G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall to get the facts straight about the election. Then, one night in mid-December, he gave a stag dinner for a group of his most trusted advisers from the 1952 campaign: Hall, Vice President Dick Nixon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...
...less resentful was a politico named Rómulo Betancourt, whose left-wing but anti-Communist party, Acción Democrática (A.D.) was having rough going at the hands of the general then in the presidency. One night Pérez Jiménez and a few other officers secretly sought out Betancourt. Said Pérez Jiménez: "Why don't you come along with us in a movement that would dignify the country and purify the armed forces?" Army and A.D. joined in a successful revolution that killed 300 and wounded...
...Carl S. (for Swift) Hallauer, 60, was elected president of Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. A sports fan and part-time politico (he is known as Rochester's "Mr. Republican"), Hallauer made an early mark in business by setting up one of the country's first employee recreation programs for Eastman Kodak. Bausch & Lomb wanted one like it, hired him in 1919 as industrial relations director, and later salesman. In 1931, he persuaded the late Al Smith to put Bausch & Lomb coin-operated telescopes atop the Empire State Building. In 1935 he was made sales vice...