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...have anything when I took office, and I had nothing when I left." Four years after he left the presidency, Cafe Filho (TIME, Cover, Dec. 6, 1954) still has nothing-or next to it. His poverty is so impressive that the legislature of his tiny, impoverished home state of Rio Grande do Norte last week voted him a pension of 40,000 cruzeiros ($240) a month for life...
...small real-estate firm. Current salary: $180 a month. Scrimping, saving, and struggling with a budget have not made Cafe Filho bitter. He lives with his wife, Jandyra, 56, (they have a son, 16, who is preparing for the naval academy), in the three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Beach where he has lived for the past 15 years, even as President. "I'm not disappointed," he says. "I am the son of a small, poor state. I was always in the opposition. Yet I was elected Vice President and reached the presidency...
...avenge his father's death. He ran away to Mexico and grew up a pistolero in the service of a provincial dictator. While he says he is from Missouri, he sounds like an Aztec exchange student after six terms at C.C.N.Y. He fords the Rio Grande on a mission to the U.S. for his Chihuahuan master (Pedro Armendariz). There he breaks a leg, is forced to stay over for two months, and suddenly he is the most sought-after man in town. A U.S. Army major (Gary Merrill) wants him to help form joint U.S.-Mexican battalions...
...Europe, Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev, each in his own fashion, made a display of moderation in anticipation of their forthcoming exchange of visits. But in Washington representatives of the SEATO powers were gravely considering the most serious military threat their alliance had ever faced, and in Rio de Janeiro U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold cut short a Latin American tour to fly back to New York for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council. While Moscow burbled of a "thaw in the cold war," new Communist aggression in Laos had plunged Asia into a crisis that, unchecked, might...
...Enemy Ground. In Rio de Janeiro, Humberto Meneses Cotrim bit a snake that bit him, survived while the snake died...