Word: planalto
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Task Force Chief Adolf A. Berle met an icy reserve that bordered on hostility. Two months ago, Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, in Brazil to present Quadros with aid of nearly $1 billion, got a somewhat bigger hello, but was still hustled in and out of Brasilia's Planalto Palace via the underground garage...
...confusing, sometimes contradictory personality of Brazil's Jânio Quadros becomes more sharply defined with each new series of explosions echoing from Planalto Palace. In a burst of executive action last week, Quadros showed himself to be a determined, conservative-minded economic reformer. He also proved himself impulsive, thin-skinned, autocratic...