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...medal was too much. Rio's O Globo complained that "hung on the chest of a false Cuban and authentic Communist, the emblem of Christ's Cross has been completely devalued." Sharper still was the blast from sulphur-tongued Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara state (which includes Rio de Janeiro), whose original election-campaign support for Quadros has since changed to dismay at Quadros' flirtation with Communists ("future hangmen of their fathers, spies of their brothers...
Outside the Door. In a quick reaction, Lacerda rounded up a group of anti-Castro Cubans headed by Manuel Antonio ("Tony") Varona and handed them the keys to Rio. Then, after calling up Quadros and being invited by him to dinner, Lacerda packed an overnight bag and rode an air force jet to Brasilia to carry his protest to the President in person. He found Quadros watching a movie in his private projection room, was offered a sandwich and told to start talking. He had hardly begun before Quadros excused himself and quietly phoned Justice Minister Pedroso Horta. "Call Carlos...
From then on it was undeclared war, and Lacerda is a formidable antagonist. He returned to Rio and announced that Justice Minister Horta had invited him to join a Quadros plot to grab more authority for himself by sending Brazil's holdover Congress into permanent recess. As Lacerda's charges began to stir a fuss, Quadros dramatically resigned. It was seven years and a day from the resignation and suicide of Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, another President who had incurred Lacerda's wrath...
...more citizens of Mexican origin. Although some families have had U.S. citizenship since Texas' annexation in 1845, most of these, like the Juan-come-latelys, have clung to their ancestral language, customs -and faith in curanderismo. It flourishes throughout the Rio Grande Valley...
Under the direction of William F. Russell, visiting professor of Music at the Summer School, the 158 singers formed six weeks ago in preparation for this one concert. The group will sing Josquin's Missa "Pange lingua," Five Songs, Opus 104, and Lambert's "The Rio Grande...