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...Former President Quadros (who arrived at the southern port of Santos yesterday) "has created no great stir," and will probably settle down to being "just another Brazilian...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Kubitschek Justifies Capital Change As Economically Sound for Brazil | 3/8/1962 | See Source »

...past (in Utah, it is virtually a political requirement), and there was no reason to believe that it would hurt Romney in Michigan. But George Romney is being touted as a promising contender for the 1964 G.O.P. presidential nomination-and on the national scene his religion might stir up a real controversy, just as John F. Kennedy's Catholicism did in 1960. Around Michigan last week the word was being spread that the Mormon Church looks on Negroes as an inferior race, cursed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michigan: The Mormon Issue | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...spokesman for the demonstrators explained that they hope to stir up enough public pressure to force the Maryland legislature to pass a proposed Public Accommodations Bill. The legislation would classify restaurants as public accommodations, thus making restaurant owners liable to prosecution for discrimination under existing state laws. The demonstrators also seek public support for the creation of a biracial civic committee in Easton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two University Students Arrested During Sit-Ins | 2/26/1962 | See Source »

Schwarz means to stir people up, and he does. He arouses an automatic-reflex hostility in the liberal-to-left camp, and an equally instinctive support on the far right. But for those Americans who are themselves less easily classified, Schwarz is a hard man to classify. For his crusade poses a question that is deeper than it looks: What is the role of the individual U.S. citizen in antiCommunism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: Crusader Schwarz | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

This year, a new non-Communist opposition is playing a significant part in the elections. Its chances of upsetting the government are nil, but a strong showing would stir up Congress policies and present alternatives for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Tea-Fed Tiger | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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