Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be bogged down in a swamp of protocol. Advised that foreign governments might balk at giving him the full red-carpet treatment before Brazil's slow-moving Electoral Tribunal officially declared him President-elect, Kubitschek first announced a postponement of the trip. Flurries of messages buzzed between Rio and Brazilian embassies abroad. From Paris, Rome, Brussels, Madrid, Lisbon, Bonn and The Hague came assurances that Kubitschek would be treated as President-elect, certified or not. The U.S. State Department followed along. London almost got scratched from the itinerary until the Foreign Office found that an audience with Queen...
Forgoing his gimpy English, the President-elect talked to Ike in Portuguese, translated by Brazil's Washington Ambassador Joāo Carlos Muniz. After breakfast Kubitschek bade farewell to his host, and raced back to the Brazilian commercial airliner that had brought him from Rio. Stops ahead on his preinauguration tour: Washington, New York, London, Paris, Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, the Vatican, Madrid, Lisbon-all in 17 hectic days...
...tankers of a score or more of flags. From the Peak, the British name for the range of hills on Hong Kong Island, houses of the rich and the merely prosperous give grace to a prospect that leads many a world traveler to argue that Hong Kong surpasses Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, or San Francisco as the world's most beautiful seaport. Beneath the Peak stand perhaps the world's most crowded slums, where as many as 40 may live in a space 18 ft. by 14 ft., and along some of the poorer, barren slopes, there...
...meeting in La Plata, a meat-packing city 35 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, and arrested some 50 persons. Among them were General Heraclio Ferrazzano and Colonel Norberto Ugolini, a pair of cashiered officers, who, loyal to ex-Strongman Juan Perón, fought off insurrectionists at the Rio Santiago naval base during last September's successful anti-Perón revolution. Police followed up by questioning between 400 and 500 other known Peronistas...
...Christmas spirit remained to be evoked, but Victor kept on releasing Christmassy disks until it had the subject covered in a world tour de force. The route: from Europe, with Italian Jingle Bells (Campanella, campanella, solo bella . . .) sung by Lou Monte, to South America with Christmas in Rio, tricked out in samba tempo by Tony Martin, to a cornfed, shuffling western version of Jingle Bells, played on guitar by Chet Atkins...