Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just at noon on the day after elections, the vote count began in Rio's Hotel dos Estrangeiros. Electoral Board No. 13 opened the first presidential ballots. The judge looked at the first ballot and intoned: "The first vote is for Getulio Vargas." The second, third and fourth ballots were also for Vargas. Not until the fifth ballot did Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes score. The first vote for Christiano Machado, the government's candidate, was recorded even later...
...stream, according to the Panair do Brasil meteorologists who discovered it, probably girdles the southern part of the globe. Moving eastward at 36,000 ft., its speed is slightly less than that of the northern stream, and its core is sometimes 180 miles wide. It rides erratically over Rio de Janeiro in winter and Patagonia in summer. Since it borders weather fronts up & down South America, Panair officials are trying to plot its tortured turnings and twistings for more accurate weather forecasting. They also want to know more about it for the day when their jet airliners may be bumming...
ERIC ARAGUARI Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
...welcomed genial Admiral Flavio Figueiredo de Medeiros, 62, chief of staff of Brazil's navy and Sherman's guest for a twelve-day visit to the U.S. After meeting U.S. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and attending some white-glove parties, the Brazilian admiral, who commanded the 1st (Rio) naval district during the latter part of World War II, embarked on a series of trips to ordnance plants, naval schools and submarine bases. "I learn," explained the admiral after visiting the New York Naval Shipyard. "In spite of my grey hair I am always learning...
...their various fashions, the people of New Mexico had long prayed for rain. They were used to seeing the Rio Grande shrunk to a brookwide trickle, too thick to drink, too thin to plough. They were used to seeing their reservoirs low, their rolling ranges burned brown. Often they were forced to ship their cattle away to greener pastures. Many a sun-scorched New Mexican had said resignedly: "The Lord made the state dry. I guess He wants it that...