Word: rio
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Sponsored by the city of New Orleans and TIME Inc., the idea got its first big boost after last year's Rio Conference where Latin American hopes for U.S. Government loans so greatly overshadowed private economic cooperation that little was accomplished. But in New Orleans, under the spur of Shipping Tycoon (Mississippi Shipping Co.) Rudolf S. Hecht, chairman of the city's trade-minded International House, private businessmen were eager to carry the ball. The Latin American delegations came prepared with a 50-page prospectus of more than 300 specific projects in their home countries to show...
Delegates of Brazil's biggest political party gathered in Rio last week and noisily chose a presidential candidate for next October's election. The nominee Juscelino Kubitschek, 53, samba-dancing, spellbinding governor of the Texas-sized inland state of Minas Gerais. After the balloting (1,646 to 0, with 279 abstentions), Kubitschek's followers roared his longtime political theme song, Peixe Vivo (Living Fish), an old Portuguese ballad...
...measure that should eventually revive exports and bring in more dollars. Meanwhile, Brazil urgently needed a stopgap dollar loan. Heeding the call for help, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland interrupted his visit to Cuba with Vice President Richard Nixon, flew to Rio. In less than 24 hours, Washington's Export-Import Bank announced a new $75 million credit to Brazil to finance essential imports from...
...associates, which for two years has been developing rich uranium claims in a 3O-mile-square tract of land in Canada's Blind River summer-resort area, just north of Lake Huron. Under the deal a group of international mining and financial interests, headed by Britain's Rio Tinto Co., Ltd. (whose chairman...
Died. João Alberto Lins de Barros, 57, Brazilian Diplomatic Minister and foreign-trade expert, longtime right-hand man of the late President Getúlio Vargas ; of can cer; in Rio de Janeiro. Joao Alberto played an important role in the 1930 revolution that brought Vargas to power. During the 1 5-year dictatorship that fol lowed, he was chiefly responsible, as federal interventor of São Paulo and chief of police of Rio de Janeiro, for Vargas' survival in the face of repeated internal