Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of sensitive diplomatic assignments-Rome, Paris, Moscow, Madrid, London, Rio de Janeiro-U.S. Career Diplomat James Clement Dunn won wide respect as an urbane, wise, influential foreign-service officer. As U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-52), he merited the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for helping defeat the Communists in the critical 1948 elections (partially by dramatizing U.S. aid). As Ambassador to Spain (1953-55), he helped develop the new U.S. policy of good relations with Franco. Moving on to booming Brazil in February 1955, he concentrated on touring remote jungles and backwaters by jeep, plane...
EVERY Wednesday morning, a motorcyclist in green uniform speeds from Rio's Catete Palace to Galeão Airport to meet the plane that brings TIME'S Latin American edition from our Havana printers. At the airport, customs officers break open a packet of the magazines, then, before clearing any other cargo, they give a copy of TIME to the palace messenger. He rushes it to President Juscelino Kubitschek's secretary, João Luis, who delivers it immediately to the President, even if he has to interrupt a conference...
...horned Moorish stock from Spain's Andalusian plains and dropped them off in 1493 at Santo Domingo on his second voyage. From there they were taken to Mexico. Half a century later Coronado, bound north in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola, drove 500 head across the Rio Grande for food along the way. Some escaped, and the famed longhorn found a home in Texas...
CANADIAN MINING DEAL, one of the biggest in the country's history, will throw together Uranium King Joseph Hirshhorn's properties (TIME, Feb. 21, 1955) with Britain's big Rio Tinto mine interests. For $34 million in stocks and bonds, Hirshhorn has sold his holdings in the Blind River area (Pronto Uranium, Pater, Plum...
Peach, etc.) to Rio Tinto, which will merge them into a new company with Hirshhorn as board chairman and biggest stockholder...