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Goulart's conservative opposition had already rejected his first choice for a Prime Minister, and Goulart himself had fallen out with his second. His third choice was hardly reassuring, Francisco de Paula Brochado da Rocha, 51, comes from Goulart's home state of Rio Grande do Sul and is an aide and confidant to Leonel Brizola, the state's rabble-rousing, far-left governor. Brochado da Rocha himself was a key man in the expropriation last February of Rio Grande's $7,000,000 U.S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. subsidiary. Still, sensing the public unrest...
...vote of 215 to 58, Congress swiftly approved his nomination. But when it came to agreeing on a Cabinet, more squabbles broke out. For four days the argument continued. It was ended only by word that Brochado da Rocha was threatening to resign and by far-left threats of a nationwide general strike if labor's choices were not approved...
...able to do things better with our own hands." With these nationalistic words, Brazilian Financier Celso Rocha Miranda, 43, took control of Panair do Brasil away from Pan American World Airways. Though Pan Am retained its 30% holdings in Panair, Miranda bought up the other 70%, mostly from Panair's Brazilian directors, for an estimated $5,000,000. A self-made millionaire-he is Brazil's biggest insurance broker-elegant Celso Rocha Miranda has ordered eight French Caravelle medium-range jets to put his new enterprise on a competitive footing with rival Brazilian airlines Varig and Real...
...urgency and dedication of her appeal took the city by storm. Newspapers named her the "Fiancée of Death" and called her story the "Second Song of Bernadete." President Café Filho made a personal visit to promise the government's "moral and material support." And Marta Rocha, runner-up in the 1954 Miss Universe contest and honored symbol of Brazilian beauty, went to see the dark-haired girl, wept, and next day broadcast an appeal for funds to build the "Hospital of Bernadete" for care of cancer victims...
...hospital fund mounted quickly to $103,600 by week's end and gave every promise of growing, as Rio's Jockey Club promised to donate all profits from a Sunday's racing, and Marta Rocha announced plans for a star-studded charity show. Meanwhile, as Bernadete's plight drew national attention, Brazilian Specialist Albert Coutinho offered to perform a drastic, last-chance operation involving removal of the right lung. Bernadete decided against it. "My death," she said, "will be more useful than my life. People will not forget...