Word: elective
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...million Brazilians went to the polls last week to elect a new President, the expected tight race turned into no contest at all. With better than half the vote counted, Opposition Candidate Jânio da Silva Quadros, 43, held a huge 1,600,000-vote lead over the incumbent administration's man, Field Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, and seemed certain to roll up the greatest plurality in history. Quadros not only won his home state of São Paulo, he also jumped ahead in Lott's own state of Minas Gerais...
...bank's least hidden asset is its first president, a plump, articulate Chilean named Felipe Herrera. Once a Socialist, and at 38 still prone to consider banking economics as mere means to social ends, Herrera has labored nonstop to get the bank going ever since he was elected last February. By his own methodical count, he has been on the road 92 days, visited 19 countries, explained the bank to 18 Presidents, 3 Presidents-elect, 85 government ministers, 42 political party leaders ("while gaining six pounds and losing seven shirts and five handkerchiefs...
...made no friends with a tough speech to the reform Democrats who were warring with the regular organization: "Gentlemen, I don't give a damn if the state and county organizations survive after November, and I don't give a damn if you survive. I want to elect John F. Kennedy." Many of his listeners were offended, but Bobby achieved his purpose, and the feuding forces of Tammany Hall and the Eleanor Roosevelt reformers agreed to work together-separately-under the direction of a coordinator who was a Washington, D.C. neighbor of Jack Kennedy...
CRIMSON candidates will compete against the paper's standards rather than against their fellow candidates. As in years past, the CRIMSON will elect to its boards as many candidates as successfully satisfy these standards...
...government candidate, he inherited the archnationalist and Communist support that helped elect Kubitschek. He left Red-lining harangues to others on his team. For himself, he insisted that he was a practicing Roman Catholic and an unswerving, antiCommunist. He promised to continue building Brazil as Kubitschek has done, but avoided committing himself to the printing-press method of payment that Kubitschek has used...