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In the 1955 elections he won more votes for the vice-presidency than Juscelino Kubitschek won for the presidency (Brazilians vote separately for President and Vice President). Once again Goulart was given control of the crowd-pleasing ministries-Labor and Agriculture. In the 1960 election campaign, arguing for the nationalization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Victory for Goulart | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

Pleasing Mother. The other main strain of Christmas is the family. Parents agonize about diappointing their children, about spending more on one than another, about whether the neighbor children will get more or better presents. Grown children worry about their parents. "Selecting a Christmas present for mother is a traumatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Blight Before Christmas | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Kaebler said that because of controversy concerning the design of the building he has been working continually with the Faculty in an effort to "find a compromise that will be pleasing to all governed."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ed School Reveals Plan To Construct New Center | 12/12/1962 | See Source »

Love for Love, a comedy written by Mr. Congreve, is now being produced at the Loeb by Messrs. Vachon, Chapman, Soule and Warburg and by Mrs. Liepmann. They have no first names, or at least the program, a self-consciously cute tribute to Restoration taste, omits them. Unamused but undaunted...

Author: By Mr. Hiss, | Title: Love for Love | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

After ten terms in the House, Minnesota's Republican Representative Walter Judd was determined to retire. He was unhappy because the state legislature had tacked some heavily Democratic Minneapolis wards onto his previously safe Fifth District. He was even unhappier with the hundreds of constituent-pleasing chores that consume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Making It Harder | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

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