Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frankness-so much so that he short-circuited the usual channels in answering such a letter, sat down and wrote out his own reply. Probable result: a gathering of the hemisphere's Foreign Ministers to hash out mutual headaches-plus an enthusiastic O.K. for a Dulles trip to Rio late this summer. Even as Ike wrote, the U.S. was preparing to end its isolation from one of Latin America's biggest problems-coffee booms and busts (see below). And at week's end Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, was appointed...
Says Denver & Rio Grande President Gayle B. Aydelott, who has used the recession to streamline everything from office procedures to main-line maintenance: "We found all sorts of revisions we could make to improve our operation. Now these revisions work so well we wouldn't go back to the old way of doing things even if the recession ended tomorrow...
...OCTAVIO DOMINGUES Rio de Janeiro...
Scandal in Rio. The scandal reached all the way back to Rio. Politically ambitious Finance Minister José Maria Alkmim announced a special government advance of $6,000 to afflicted towns -and gave that amount to every municipality in his own green state of Minas Gerais. In Rio Grande do Norte, Carlos Cabras, who has been in charge of building a long-range irrigation project for the past two years, confessed that $1,000,000 had been looted and said part of it had gone for payoffs to a Senator and two Deputies in Kubitschek's own party...
Large & Small. Today Calder mobiles grace living rooms from Tokyo to Rio de Janeiro, hang in museums from Massachusetts to Moscow, enliven public and business buildings from Beirut to New York's International Airport (see color page). A water-ballet fountain performs at Detroit's General Motors Technical Center; a 21-ft. motorized, mobile-topped stabile called The Whirling Ear guards the outside pool of the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (Calder's commission: $10,000). Last week Mr. Mobile left his Roxbury studio and flew to Spoleto, Italy, to supervise the installation...