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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Youth Already Old." When Quadros says, "I am no plutocrat," he means it. He was born and raised a Roman Catholic in the tiny Mato Grosso town of Campo Grande on what was then the woolly fringe of Brazil's wild western frontier. His home was a rented room over a barbershop, where his mother, Leonor da Silva Quadros, the daughter of a small-time immigrant Argentine cattleman, tried to keep house, and where his pharmacist father, Gabriel, made life miserable for them both. Gabriel, says one of Quadros' close friends, "was abnormal-a real villain with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: One Man's Cup of Coffee | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

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