Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute symphonic poem by Chicago-born Pulitzer Prizewinning Composer Ernst Bacon, 58, with narration based on Paul Horgan's Pulitzer Prizewinning book Great River: The Rio Grande. Commissioned two years ago by the Dallas Symphony and performed under Walter Hendl, Rio Grande proved to be a collection of twelve thematic snippets-A River Created, Desert and Canyon: Texas-Mexico. Soldiers by Firelight-celebrating the river's history and lurid scenery. Composer Bacon's music, liberally scored for piano, vibraphone and harp, illuminates the text and is occasionally brilliantly evocative, e.g., in the tiny, clear sounds...
...snow-covered wilderness north of Lake Huron, Canada's uranium industry came of age last week. The occasion was the official opening of two big mines. Algom-Quirke and Algom-Nordic, in the world's richest uranium field, the Blind River camp. The mines were opened by Rio Tinto Mining Co. of Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of the 84-year-old British mining firm, Rio Tinto Co., Ltd. of London, which acquired them along with other Blind River properties from Brooklyn-born Joe Hirshhorn for $60 million in cash and securities. At peak the mines will soon...
...Algom operation is (the two mines and mills have a daily ore-processing capacity of 6,000 tons, double the largest U.S. operation), their output will be only a fraction of Rio Tinto's eventual production. The company's three Northspan mines ($275 million in government contracts) are set to start producing before the end of 1957; its Milliken Lake mine ($94 million in contracts) by March 1958. Rio Tinto's smaller Pronto mine (1,250 tons of ore daily) was opened in 1955 but ran into production troubles, now being taken care of in an enlargement...
...telephone call came through one day last week from Budapest to Rio de Janeiro's Hotel Gloria. On the Rio end, three of the world's top soccer players took their turns for one minute of conversation. On the Budapest end were the players' wives, all with the same message: "Please come home! Everything will be all right." The Hungarian government was leaving no weapon untried in an effort to lure its topflight Honved soccer team back from a renegade jaunt...
...more than a month the 19 squad members have been hailed as heroes of democracy as well as sport. On a European tour when revolution broke out at home, they played out their scheduled games and then, defying orders to return to Hungary, flew to Brazil to take on Rio's Flamengo squad (TIME, Jan. 28). Crowds of 100,000-plus turned out for the games, and the Honved team lived well on its $10,000 per match...