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Once in May and again in August, the conference had to be postponed because of the flaring civil war in the Dominican Republic. Now at last 800 delegates from 19 nations converged on Rio's ancient Hotel Gloria for the Second Special Inter-American Conference of the Organization of American States. The object was to assess the role of the 17-year-old OAS in a rapidly changing hemisphere. And that was something that badly needed doing. "There are several Pandora's boxes here," said an OAS official, "any one of which contains vast numbers of insects...
Everybody's looking. At least until 1967. His $65,000-a-year contract with Cleveland runs out after next season, and Jimmy has been doing a lot of talking lately about retiring. And what then? Brown has already made one movie (Rio Conchos) for 20th Century-Fox; he has a contract for three more (at $37,000 per flick). He has his own daily radio show in Cleveland, a side job as a marketing executive with Pepsi-Cola, another as a commentator on theater telecasts of boxing matches. What's more, remember how close Cleveland came to electing...
...After arranging his visa through the U.S. embassy, he flew away once again-this time to exile in the U.S. The departure eased much of the tension created by his return, and probably ends his own ambition to regain the presidency. Leaving Rio, the 63-year-old Kubitschek said that he would not be back until things had cooled off, which might take "a month, a year or 20 years...
...could hardly be more different in personality. Costa e Silva is a soldier's soldier, as bluff and hearty among his officers as Castello Branco is quiet and intense. Yet they work together as closely as the barrels of a shotgun; they graduated in the same class at Rio's Realengo Military Academy and have been on the same side in every crisis since...
...putting Castello Branco in the presidential palace. Since then, he has been a buffer between the soft-lining President and the linha dura (hardline) officers, who want ironhanded "revolutionary government." Last month, after anti-government candidates won gubernatorial elections in the key states of Minas Gerais and Guanabara, Rio's powerful First Army was on the verge of revolt-until Costa e Silva stepped in. "You must trust your commanders," he told the officers. "They are just as revolutionary...