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...Jusceli-no! Jusceli-no!" chanted a handkerchief-waving throng of 3,000 at Rio's Galeão international airport. Then from the doorway of an Air France 707 came the man, still trim and agile despite his 63 years, his face split in a toothful smile, his right arm swinging in a familiar jaunty wave. Brazil's former President Juscelino Kubitschek-still admired by the people but loathed as a symbol of corruption by the present revolutionary government-had returned home after 16 months of self-imposed exile. Said he: "I have come back at zero hour...
...favorable to the military regime won. The upset came in two major states. In Minas Gerais, Kubitschek's home state, his P.S.D. man led the candidate identified with the revolution by 200,000, with 1,500,000 votes counted and another 1,000,000 to go. In Guanabara (Rio), the outcome was even more striking. The state has been considered a private fief of Governor Carlos Lacerda, the mercurial politician who has proved a gadfly to every Brazilian President since Getulio Vargas in the 1950s. Lacerda now has presidential ambitions of his own in the elections scheduled for next...
...market, wide currency fluctuations-that money frightened off a few years back is once more flowing into the country. The flow is being hastened by Planning Minister Roberto Campos, the main architect of Brazil's economic resurgence, who likes to take potential investors out on a yacht in Rio de Janeiro Bay, when sun and sea have weakened their resistance, press upon them the advantages of investing in Brazil. It seems to work...
Problems were solved for the Federal government in Guanabara, where the city of Rio de Janeiro is situated, and in the state of Minas Gerais, a powerful and rapidly developing area just northeast of Guanabara...
...sympathy and savvy. He is admirably equipped for the job. A great-grandson of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Villard joined the Foreign Service in 1928 after graduation from Harvard and a brief try at teaching and journalism, spent the next 34 years in outposts from Tripoli and Teheran to Rio and Oslo as the U.S. inexorably enlarged its international role...