Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Lunch & Ice. They got off their hands for Marshal Tito, whose rambling speech, carefully trod the narrow Titoist line that espoused support of Khrushchev-style disarmament and policies, while reserving for himself a role of conciliator between East and West...
Twelve million Brazilian voters next week will choose one of two conservatives -São Paulo's former Governor Jânio Quadros, 43, or retired Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 65-as President of Brazil. Such are the ground rules of Brazilian politics that hardly a voter will realize that he is casting his ballot for a conservative; ever since the campaign began early this year, each camp has spent close to $5,000,000 convincing Brazil that its man is an ardent leftist, a welfare statist and a Brazil-firster...
Work v. Talent. Marshal Lott is much less flamboyant than even the new Quadros. He began his military career methodically, slogging through military school by dint of grueling hard work. Once he complained to his English-descended father about a brilliant classmate who was always getting the best marks in class. "He has talent," said Cadet Lott. "Yes," said his father, "but if you study hard you will conquer talent...
...helped. When the campaign started, Public Works Minister Ernani do Amaral Peixoto, appointed by Kubitschek's Social Democratic Party to coordinate Lott's candidacy, sadly reported to friends that "Lott is unelectable." Urged to expand his campaign itinerary, Candidate Quadros chuckled: "That's all right. Marshal Lott will visit places I can't visit myself, and win them for me." But by last week the lively new Lott was closing so fast that he had Brazilian political experts convinced that he was still solidly in the race...
Some of the visitors, in fact, were coming with the express purpose of countering Khrushchev's gambit. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito boarded the Queen Elizabeth for New York only after he and his fellow neutralist, President Nasser of Egypt, had jointly decided that the U.N. meeting offered an opportunity to promote their dream of a worldwide bloc of nations uncommitted to either East or West. Others were coming out of national pride: for the leaders of nine new African nations* of the French community, the lure was a chance to preside at their countries' U.N. debut...