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Thousands of government workers were given the day off for the funeral, but they preferred to flock to the beaches. The solemn salute of gunfire every ten minutes from Rio's forts went largely unnoticed. Thus, followed to the very end by the unpopularity that had been his lot in three years as an honest but uncharismatic President of Brazil, Humberto Castello Branco last week went to his grave at the age of 66, victim of a plane crash in the fifth month of his retirement. Said former Planning Minister Roberto Campos in a eulogy: "He had an aversion...
...patience," he once told a visitor. "I am a patient man." Prohibited from succeeding himself, he willingly left the limelight after Costa e Silva's inauguration as President in March. He spent most of his time with his family, was seen now and then at the opera in Rio, and took occasional trips to visit old friends. It was on such a trip last week that a small Piper Aztec in which he was flying collided with a jet training plane in the northeastern state of Ceara killing Castello, his brother and three others, including the pilot...
...Such a policy is part of his broader program to "humanize" the government and win back the public support that Castello lost. At the same time, Costa made it clear that other things have not changed. The day after Castello's plane crash, Helio Fernandes, the editor of Rio's Tribuna da Imprensa, wrote an editorial bitterly attacking the ex-President. He was promptly arrested and confined to a small, rocky island off northeast Brazil...
...crowd of 25,000 packing Rio's Maracanazinho Stadium included favela dwellers and members of Brazil's lower middle class, their swarthy faces reflecting their country's racial mix. Decorously dressed in black suits and flowered dresses, they were moved by evangelical zeal: when a 2,000-voice choir began to sing, everyone joined in. Afterward, a trickle of shouted individual prayers grew into a waterfall roar. Last week's rally, at the Eighth Pentecostal World Conference, eloquently illustrated the power and missionary success of one of the century's fastest-growing religious movements...
...scheme might not be worth trying on a nationwide basis. Last month the company kicked off a consorcio campaign expected to generate communal purchases of 2,500 cars a month by 1969. Skeptical at first, João Lopes Coelho, director of a dealer-run lottery operation in Rio de Janeiro, lauds the whole idea as "typical of Brazilian ingenuity and flair for gambling, something that is both safe and lucky...