On the eve of last week's nationwide elections in Brazil, left-wing politicians hopefully predicted that the late President Getulio Vargas' bitter, demagogic suicide letter (TIME, Sept. 6) would bring them a clear-cut victory. But as the returns mounted up, it seemed likely that the No. 1 victor would be a man who was not even a candidate: Vargas' successor, Moderate Conservative President Joao Café Filho, who stood aloof from the pre-election politicking even though the health of his administration was clearly at stake.
Café Filho must have a right-and-center majority in Congress to carry out his middle-of-the-road reform program for...
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