Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bullet killed whom. So Dried Meat beat the murder rap, but he got six months in jail for illegal possession of arms. He served three months, then escaped through a sewer. While the press played him up as "Inimigo Público Número Um," the police unleashed Rio's most spectacular manhunt...
...favelas were combed by detectives disguised in patched rags and wooden clogs (the footgear of Rio's poor). Dried Meat's two henchmen, Smile and Fork, were caught after an exchange of gunfire in which a bystander was killed...
...murders, the four assaults and robberies charged against him in the past month. All he wanted was to finish the jail term and take a rest. The hills of the favelas, he said, still tuckered him, and he had no place else to go. "I couldn't leave Rio," said Dried Meat, "because I would get lost...
Died. Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, 62, oldtime Royal Navy seadog, commander of the three cruiser squadron (Ajax, Achilles Exeter) that licked the Admiral Graf Spee in the Rio de la Plata in December-1939; in Goring-on-Thames, England...
...prize which Texas thinks is being stolen? According to some geologists, it is 13 billion barrels of petroleum in that part of the continental shelf which curves from the Mississippi Delta to the mouth of the Rio Grande. In search of this oil, some 35 companies have paid Texas and Louisiana more than $52 million in leases and royalties since 1945 and have drilled 131 offshore wells. But many have been dry and the big strike has not yet been made. Last week only five wells were operating off the coast of Texas, and production was so poor that oilmen...