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Word: rio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response, the chief of a nation that the U.S. considers a fully equal Northern Hemisphere partner walked to a bank of microphones and put relations along the Rio Grande in a nutshell. Said López Mateos: "No problem exists or can exist between our governments capable of weakening or jeopardizing this friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Bienvenido | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...guano is an even more ambitious INRA undertaking, first sparked by Entrepreneur Bud Arvey (son of Chicago Democratic Bigwig Jake Arvey), who hit Cuba last spring with a plan to join the Castro government in a $500,000 partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling INRA, Castro noted that INRA Director Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez is an expert spelunker, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Santa & Guano | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...passport on her own, could not buy, sell or manage property without the consent of her husband or father. She could not legally leave home until she was 30 (unless married), could not vote or practice law or medicine. As late as 1925, Archbishop José Mora y del Rio objected to feminine wage earning as a "North American custom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: A Woman's World | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...first upper-class woman to break the archbishop's position was his own distant relative, Dolores del Rio, Mexico's ageless beauty, who made her first film in 1925. Since then the gradual path of feminine emancipation has paralleled Mexico's growing industrial boom. As new jobs were created, parents began giving daughters the education necessary to fill them. In 1953, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines gave women the vote. The women have taken it from there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: A Woman's World | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Apaches take care of the major. Mitchum takes care of the Apaches. By this time, at least 48 subplots are in sore need of resolution. Mitchum takes the only way out, crosses the Rio Grande again, leaving behind him a western that is more woolly than wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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