Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JUSTUS LEWY Rio de Janeiro...
...words, in answer to a Kubitschek letter (TIME, June 16) saying that "something must be done," were delivered in Rio by Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. After he delivered the note, Rubottom talked privately in Kubitschek's office for 95 minutes, continued over a filet mignon luncheon in the palace dining room. The two set a time-the week of Aug. 4-for a Brazilian visit by Secretary of State Dulles, and agreed to the idea of a conference of the Americas' foreign ministers, possibly in Bogota, where Colombian President-elect Alberto Lleras...
...they were hawked for as much as $30 apiece. Whatever the program, audience and critics were invariably breathless at the Philharmonic's high professional gloss. Wrote a Santiago critic: "The orchestral interpretation is simply marvelous, with a perfection to which Chile has never been exposed." Said a rapt Rio critic: "We never heard such beauty before...
When he completed his final concert, even indefatigable Conductor Bernstein was exhausted. Standing wrapped in Serge Koussevitzky's old black velvet opera cloak at the Rio airport, he signed a last round of autographs. "It's over now," he said limply. "It'll cost the U.S. Government about $250,000, less than one jet. But millions of people heard an American orchestra and liked...
...Paulo, health workers were directing homeowners last week in what looked like a most unsanitary task: coating the walls inside thousands of mud huts with a mixture containing cow dung. As a result, Dr. Mario Pinotti, running the campaign from his modernistic 18th-floor office in Rio, was confident that thousands of lives would be saved...