Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston gallery at 20, began to write Art for TIME in 1945. Jones came to the section two years ago, after assignments as a TIME correspondent in San Francisco, London, Paris and Rio...
...have fallen. The State Department, however, was hit hard by the news that it probably had crashed in the Brazilian jungle. For months State's negotiators have been seeking permission for construction of six missile-tracking stations along the Brazilian coast. So far they have been unsuccessful: the Rio government, under pressure from ultranationalists and Communists, has been hard to pin down. Said a department officer bitterly: "That Snark might just as well have landed on our negotiators...
...shooting had died down (dead so far: 13). But the government believed that Castro was somewhere on the island, and Mexico City news reports indicated that Castro's irregulars might be heading for Yucatan, a mere 130 miles from Cuba. Batista declared modified martial law in Pinar del Rio, the indicated beachhead if Castro planned a small-boat invasion...
...fortnight ago, at a huge rally in front of Rio's War Ministry, the November Front hailed Lott as "the general of the people" and presented him with a $5,000 gold-hilted sword. The rally brought on a storm of opposition charges against General Lott as a man of dangerous ambition. Last week President Kubitschek acted to cope with both the November Front and the outcries against it. First he issued an order forbidding military officers to mix into politics. As an example, the government placed a top November Front leader, Lieut. Colonel Nemo Canabarro, under barracks arrest...
...will arrest General Lott?" an influential Rio newspaper asked sarcastically. Nobody, indeed, ordered house arrest for General Lott. But to show that he got the point of the President's measures, Lott called off a scheduled visit to São Paulo, where the November Front had planned to hold another rally hailing "the general of the people...