Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Multi-octaved Peruvian Songbird Yma Sumac, happy as a lark, checked into Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Palace Hotel, registered in the same suite as her manager, ex-Husband Moises Vivanco, who was divorced by her after he admitted that he was the papa of Yma's secretary's twin girls. Diva Sumac's current Latin American tour will take her soon to Brazil's brave new, jungle-fringed capital of Brasilia. There, announced Yma, she will remarry Vivanco, just as if nothing had ever happened. Planting a soulful kiss on Vivanco's lips...
...Dark of Night. In Rio de Janeiro, after learning that one U.S. mailman had been bitten by ten dogs in the course of his career, Postmaster Agelico Loureiso boasted: "Our rural carriers have often been bitten and even eaten by jaguars...
After World War II, Blacksmith Henrique Pedro de Sanson expanded his Rio shop to make boiler tanks. In 1950 he went into oil-storage tanks, in 1956 into specialized truck bodies-dump trucks, asphalt spreaders, tank trailers. "Business has increased 300% to 400% every year since I started," says Millionaire Sanson. Along with 39,892 other businesses (quadrupled since 1946), San-son's enterprise is riding a boom that has kited Brazil's gross national product up 63% in the past ten years, has boosted the per capita G.N.P. 29%-allowing for a population explosion from...
Neither a swashbuckler by nature nor a parlor diplomat (he loathes parties, puts up with them only as part of his job), Cabot is known around the State Department as a skilled troubleshooter who works at his job and writes sharp, effective reports. His technical qualifications for Rio include duty at seven posts south of the border (his wife, an American, was born and reared in Mexico City), a swing through Latin America in 1953 with the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, and service as U.S. delegate to a number of Latin American conferences. Prognosis for his Senate...
...From Rio de Janeiro, where he is living in modest circumstances but lionized by Brazilian intellectuals, Delgado told a TIME correspondent: "It was a small affair, but it frightened the Salazar government to death. I suppose they intended to take over some key points, call on me to abolish the dictatorship. Salazar's Gestapo caught on "to plans because too many people were involved-40 or 50. You Americans don't understand the situation in Portugal. It's a police state under very tight control...