Word: corcovado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rotarians let them down. Staid, stout and respectable, they ignored the hotspots, loosed not a wolf whistle. Festooned with cameras and shopping bags, they took the funicular to Sugar Loaf mountain, gazed at the Christ of Corcovado, swarmed into the curio shops to buy butterfly trays and carved knickknacks...
...next two days were heavy with fog and rain. The Trumans passed them in relative quiet. With White House Physician Wallace Graham, an orchid fancier, the President clambered 1,000 feet up precipitous Corcovado Mountain behind the American Embassy. They found six orchid plants, one in bloom. Mrs. Truman and Margaret went out shopping, bought handbags, filigree jewelry and carved wooden animals. The President made a surprise appearance at the opera, drew a wild ovation...
...late, war's austerity and Senhor Lage's death had dimmed hei glory. Last week, weary of obscurity, Gabriella Besanzoni announced that, because she was grateful to God, she would have Mass said on the pinnacle of Corcovado Mountain...
...Next to Corcovado Mountain (topped by a giant, illuminated Christ in concrete), the most spectacular sight in Rio is busty, bediamonded Gabriella Besanzoni Lage, an ex-opera singer. Last week these two spectacles got together...
Beckoned by special advertisements in Rio's newspapers, 150 relatives, friends and gawkers boarded a special train which Gabriella had provided. On Corcovado's peak, while the crowd waited an hour for Gabriella to arrive (by limousine), a vendor did a bang-up business in sandwiches and bananas. Then the cloud curtain parted. A brilliant sun laid Rio bare and dazzling, 2,300 ft. below. Madame Lage strode on stage. Beneath the statue of Christ the Redeemer, a priest intoned a short service. In 15 minutes, it was all over...