Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with some 100,000 other retired couples who live in trailer coaches ... we have taken care of that matter in a highly satisfactory manner . . . We park our mobile homes at Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Adirondacks or some other cool retreat in summer, and go to Florida, Palm Springs or the Rio Grande valley in the winter...
...Paulo. In their air-conditioned board room five stories above Rio's Avenida Wilson, the conferees worked on, unperturbed by the Red heat...
...envoys to ten South American countries met in Rio de Janeiro last week to thresh out regional problems and talk policy. Sparkplug of the meeting was brisk, affable Edward G. Miller, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Also present, as observer and counselor: the State Department's planner in chief, scholarly George F. Kennan...
...reception given in his honor by Octavio da Souza Dantas, Miller got talking with portly (240 lbs.) Augusto Frederico Schmidt, poet, businessman and columnist. Between nibbles of crisp shrimp patties, Schmidt waxed eloquent on political matters. Next day, in his column in Rio's influential Correio da Manhā, he developed his thoughts in an open letter to Miller and, indirectly...
Since New Year's Day, smiling, curly-haired John Joseph Burke Jr. has been burning along like a Texas grass fire; he tied Sam Snead and two others for first in the Bing Crosby Invitation, took a third in the Los Angeles Open, won the Rio Grande Valley Open and was up in the money at Long Beach, Phoenix and Tucson. But to pros like Kansas' Dick Metz (who thinks Burke will win the National Open) all this was less impressive than the youngster's background...