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Capital Confusion A muscular dystrophy victim named Renato Ruieroz made the 800-mile trip from Rio by wheelchair, and arrived in time. A relay of athletes ran a flaming torch from Salvador, 1.800 road miles away, as 100,000 Brazilians converged last week to hear President Juscelino Kubi-tschek proclaim: "I declare inaugurated under the protection of God the city of Brasilia." President Dwight Eisenhower, like dozens of other heads of state, cabled his congratulations "on the splendid pioneering spirit of Brazil...
...Rio de Janeiro...
...rate of one each 30 minutes, 2,333 trucks churned out of Rio de Janeiro and took the road west, their springs creaking under all the paraphernalia of bureaucracy, from swivel chairs to paper clips. In the wilderness of Brazil's central plateau, planes touched down on a new, jet-length runway every two minutes with Tempelhof-like precision. This week, before a crowd of 200,000, President Juscelino Kubitschek will officially move the Brazilian government into Brasilia, his $500 million new capital. Boasts Kubitschek: "We have turned our back on the sea and penetrated to the heartland...
...have found at least $117 million of financing for Brasilia. It absorbed, for example, 95% of all hospital construction funds for 1959. As deficit spending sent the cruzeiro spiraling from 65 to 200 to the dollar, the opposition awoke. "The limit of insanity! A dictatorship in the desert!" cried Rio's Correio da Manhã. "Madness," echoed O Globo. Kubitschek, sensing now a grand cause, replied: "The capital is moving, and anybody who tries to stop it will be lynched by the people...
Bankruptcy in a Cadillac. Tardily, the authorities awoke to Brinkley, and by the early 19303 he had been stripped of his license to practice medicine in Kansas. Unperturbed, he hired other medics to do his cutting, and piped his radio medicine show to XER, in Mexico near Del Rio, Texas. Brinkley tried twice more to become Governor of Kansas, and in 1940 let it be known that he had received 500,000 letters urging him to run for President as the Republican candidate. But by the end of the decade, the enthusiasm for goat glands had subsided (although Brinkley made...