Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will of the people finally became manifest a fortnight ago at a convention of Adhemar's personally operated Social Progressive Party. Into the assembly hall of Rio's Chamber of Deputies whose rosewood paneling and carved furnishings were hidden by banners, flowers and clouds of confetti, thronged delegates and onlookers. Perfumed women in mink stoles mixed with cab drivers and shoeshine boys. Some spectators shinnied up columns for a better view. After hours of "man-who" speeches, Adhemar entered, slapping backs, embracing, shaking hands. When at last his figure towered over them from the platform, the crowd whooped...
...RIO Correspondent Piero Saporiti flew over the Andes for a first, fresh-eyed view of Peru, its economy and policies (see Progress to Prosperity in HEMISPHERE). While in Lima, Saporiti tried a dish called ceviche, which is popular in many Latin American countries. When he asked for the recipe, the cook said, "All you do is take a corvina [a black-finned fish] and leave it in lemon juice for three hours." Saporiti asked: "What next...
...newly established John M. Barnaby Award, for the most valuable member of the varsity tennis team, has gone this year to Captain Alex Haegler '55 of Eliot House and Rio de Janeiro, it was announced yesterday...
...campus in sports cars at velocities somewhat under the speed of sound, raise goldfish, beat out lowdown boogie on a piano or saw a 'cello in a community string quartet. One eminent theoretical physicist turned up, ragged and happy as a native, whacking a percussion instrument in a Rio street band...
...photography, Los Angeles Times Staff Photographer John L. Gaunt Jr., for a picture titled "Tragedy in the Surf." Pulitzer awards in other fields: fiction, William Faulkner's A Fable; drama, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; history, Paul Horgan's Great River, The Rio Grande in North American History; biography, New York Times Washington Correspondent William S. White's The Taft Story; poetry, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; music, Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Blceker Street...