Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come home with the praise of the Italians, of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and many a Democratic Senator. This time both the President and Secretary Dulles had given her warm endorsement, and Brazil's government and press had welcomed her appointment to Rio with notable enthusiasm...
Morse accused her of "instability" and of many other things, culminating in "sinister subversion." Her nomination was a "horrendous mistake," and to send her to Rio would be "utter folly." He charged her with "extreme partisanship" as Ambassador to Italy. He attacked her "relationship to TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE," declaimed about the "intertwining of Luce policy and Eisenhower policy in conducting the vital affairs of the U.S." Morse even suggested that a TIME story quoting an anonymous U.S. official's rueful jest about dividing up Bolivia-a quote in TIME'S Latin American edition that was used...
...Rio de Janeiro's JORNAL DO BRASIL: Senhora Luce can be certain that the U.S. Senate debate did not in the least affect the Brazilian concept and appreciation of her personally. The predominant opinion, now that we will not have her here with us, is deep disappointment. Brazil's role in Pan-American development would have been ably treated by a diplomat with the extraordinary abilities and superior intelligence of Senhora Luce...
...straight Hollywood foreign intrigue: the night scene at Lisbon airport, passengers to Rio de Janeiro fretting at Flight 289's unexplained two-hour delay. A black Mercedes-Benz slips onto the runway. A man scuttles out, clambers into the airliner. Forty-five minutes later, 20 plainclothes policemen dissolve into the darkness, and the great silver plane roars off into the Atlantic midnight...
...Baby flew off to Rome. The gossip that bounced back might have shaken a less eternal love: Baby arm in arm with Princess Doris Pignatelli. Baby dating Actress Rosanna Schiaffino. Baby dispatching red roses to former Queen Soraya of Iran. Baby dancing with his ex-wife Mimosa. Back in Rio, Baby found Ana Maria full of doubts, but he smothered her in flowers and loving attention. Last week Baby even set a wedding date of sorts-some time...