Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PETER FRANKEL RIO DE JANEIRO...
...Warning. Snorted Rio's respected Correio da Manhã: "The title of President Kubitschek should be changed to Pharaoh of Brasilia." Cried onetime Finance Minister Eugenio Gudin: "A crime! Those factors of production wasted on the dream of a new capital will be missed...
...hundred miles northwest of overcrowded Rio de Janeiro, in airy hills 4.000 ft. high on the edge of Brazil's vast jungles, forty city planners sat at a dinner table spread with snowy linen, and one of them recited an impromptu toast to progress in building Brazil's new capital. A year before, when they landed at the site, they found just one adobe hut. There now, nearly complete, stands a six-story hotel. 500 houses, and famed Architect Oscar Niemeyer's flowing, two-story Presidential Palace, resting on 20 arched concrete columns. Chugging ahead night...
...Dream. The dream of a new capital to replace old Rio precedes Brazil's independence from Portugal in 1822. But it is uniquely Kubitschek's accomplishment, for until he set up the government-owned Novacap corporation to do the job. Brasilia was all talk. "We must occupy our country, march to the west, turn our backs to the sea, and stop staring fixedly at the ocean-as if thinking of departing," says Kubitschek...
West Germany's durable Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, remarkably unaware that he could slow down at 81, said he will fly down to Rio for a visit next year, at Brazil's invitation, to boost economic and cultural ties...