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...PRESIDENTE. Johnson and López Mateos made an entrance worthy of Auntie Mame in a helicopter, followed by Harry Truman and Mister Sam in another, smaller helicopter. It was, according to a Dallas reporter, "one of the most dramatic outdoor shows since they produced Aïda with live elephants...
Sign of the Cross. Eight months after his inauguration, Congress passed a law setting up the Companhia Urbanizadora da Nova Capital do Brasil (Novacap) to build the city. Says Kubitschek: "Nobody thought I could or would do it." Kubitschek could. And Brazil's great architects caught his enthusiasm...
...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...
Mysterious West. In Milwaukee, when Marquette University Student Jane da Silva, a native of Bombay, India, picked up her saris at the cleaners, her bill read: -'Two tablecloths...
...threw slops from fifth-floor bedchambers with the cry "Gardy-loo!" (from the French gardez I'eau, or watch out for the water), Europe's sanitary arrangements consisted of ordure without decorum. The first British patent for a water closet was not taken out until 1775, although da Vinci had designed one nearly three centuries earlier...