From Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, after a frantic search, went an iron lung. From Buenos Aires, where a Pan American plane made a special stop, to São Paulo went Johnson & Johnson's Vice President Andrew Rohlfing, only man within reach who knew how an iron lung was operated. The reason: Getulio Vargas Jr., youngest son of Brazil's President, had suddenly been taken ill in São Paulo, was in serious condition with infantile paralysis.
Getulinho ("little Getulio") is perhaps the most promising of President Vargas' three sons. Graduate of Brazil's Escola Nacional de Chymica, he spent four years at...
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