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As it turned out, the principal effect of the changes was to drive from the Finance Ministry Francisco San Tiago Dantas, a brilliant, opportunistic politician whom the U.S. regarded as a man doing his honest best to carry out a needed austerity in Brazilian affairs. Having obliged the spenders by...
"With good will," says a weary priest, "everything could be solved." But if anything, the landlords of the Northeast, who fear a peasant revolt, are growing tougher. To Caio Lins Cavalcanti, president of the "Recuperation Center of Agricultural Landlords" formed as a sort of mutual protection society, the hungry peasants...
The fox-hunting members of the three local hunts were a little disturbed, in a permissive sort of way, when they found that Mrs. Kennedy had chosen Glen Ora. This was a natural reaction, since all of this group had chosen their region for their fox hunting and for their...
Desperate to put down the local alarm, authorities in Rio insisted that there was no danger in Brazil but plenty in the U.S. where hormone fattening is standard practice. Trouble with this argument: U.S. authorities have not turned up a single proven case of enough hormone getting through to have...
General Távora protested that he had been innocently unaware of the deal, but Governor Quadros promptly denied that. Warned by his fellow generals to get out of the race, Távora announced that he had decided not to run. Shattered, the anti-Kubitschek coalition lamely chose a...