Word: carioca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unwanted interventionist in foreign affairs. A story of impressive accomplishment in Brazil recently inspired President Juscelino Kubitschek to pull out his Portuguese-English dictionary and translate it personally for the local press. Another story of the drought that is starving thousands in northeast Brazil moved Rio's Diario Carioca to comment: "How sad! How true! How bitter that our national disaster and disgrace, which we all knew about and tried to forget, should be reported to the whole world in TIME...
...trip to Brazil last week. It was his first visit to South America in two years-and he made it with U.S. troops standing ready in Lebanon and debate on the Middle East situation about to begin in the U.N. Said Rio's Diario Carioca: "By his very presence here at this time, Senhor Dulles proves false the idea that the U.S. neglects Latin America...
...drought, and they resented U.S. charges that they were gouging their U.S. customers. After President Eisenhower, himself a coffee lover, told a press conference that something should be done to reduce the price of the stuff ($1.10 a Ib. in U.S. groceries last week), Rio's newspaper Diario Carioca complained testily that "our brave and dignified friend [is] making a little demagoguery and sticking his spoon into the coffee case...
...whisky all through the wartime shortage-largely because it was the most available. Rosenstiel put on his greatest show of confidence by expanding. During and after the war, he bought the Blatz Brewing Co., put Schenley into wines and vermouth (Cresta Blanca, Roma and La Bohème), rum (Carioca), cordials (DuBouchett), brandies (Coronet, J. Bavet and Jean Robert), gins (Silver Wedding, Schenley, Gibson, etc.), and even set up a chemical division to make penicillin and other antibiotics...
...cops, tough as they are, avoid favelas even by daylight. "As a sanctuary for criminals," said the newspaper O Globo, "the favelas are as inviolate as the ancient temples. The law . . . stops at the base of the hill, as if it were the frontier of a foreign country." Cariocas fear favela-bred epidemics of disease and crime, but they fear explosions of discontent even more. Now & then, a rumor that favelados are about to descend from the hill in plundering hordes puts fear into carioca hearts. Such rumors floated about during last month's carnival celebrations, souring some...