At the edge of the driveway near his Key West holiday quarters, a smiling Dwight Eisenhower greeted Brazil's smiling President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek with a brisk handshake. After posing for press photographs with his visitor, the President ushered him inside for a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, necessarily hurried because Kubitschek was due in Washington at 1 p.m. to address the U.S. Congress.
Forgoing his gimpy English, the President-elect talked to Ike in Portuguese, translated by Brazil's Washington Ambassador Joāo Carlos Muniz. After breakfast Kubitschek bade farewell to his host, and raced back to the...
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