Word: ribeiro
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...squalor and misery. Last week something unusual happened there: strangers invaded the hill and set to work clearing ground for a clinic, a police station and water pipes. The city government was starting a campaign to clean up the favelas, and the program's boss, Dr. Guilherme Ribeiro Romano, 37, had chosen Little Crocodile as the first project...
...stroll with Joe Louis in Harlem. Friends embraced him, girls waved, shoeshine boys grinned admiringly. Joāo, whose real name is Carlos Braga, is no boxer, but last week he was champ. In a land where everyone loves song, Joāo had written (with Collaborator Alberto Ribeiro) the song everybody was singing...
...Tuba, which won the $750 citywide song contest, had just what it takes to make a carnaval hit: a catchy tune (reminiscent of the Maine Stein Song) and a daffy lyric. Because the government was out to make carnaval bigger & better after some wartime flops, De Barro and Ribeiro wrote Cat in lilting, one-step marcha time-quicker even than the sprightly samba beat...
From the Brazilian heartland last summer came stories of a "miracle man" whose blessing cured the sick in mind and body. The healer was a humble parish priest named Padre Antonio Ribeiro Pinto. By last week he had become a national figure. To seek his blessing, thousands of Brazilians were traveling by special train, by chartered taxi and by bus and truck from as far south as Porto Alegre and as far north as Bahía. Reported TIME Correspondent William White, who went to see for himself...
...were used to buy coffee for destruction. The burning and dumping had hardly begun before the 1933 crop turned out to be the biggest in history-nearly 30,000,000 bags. And all the world can use is 25,000,000 bags per year. But President Armando Vidal Leite Ribeiro of Departamento Nacional do Café made more briquets from coffee and tar, fired bigger mountains of beans, shoveled more bags into...