Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French secret service and counter-espionage in Algiers. His work uncovering illegal Communist Party activities just after the liberation of France earned him the enduring enmity of French Reds. But he is also no friend of the U.S.: during his anthropological work he became convinced that south of the Rio Grande the U.S. is a nasty old imperialist. His brilliant, biting speeches against German rearmament helped kill EDC, and he has attacked Mendès' own Paris Accords...
...Rio de Janeiro, Physiologist João de Souza Campos, Biochemist Roched Seba and Botanist Geraldo Kulman reported the discovery of a native substitute for India's so-called "miracle plant," rauwolfia serpentina, which has proved highly effective (in drug form) in treating high blood pressure and nervous disorders (TIME, Nov. 8). Drugs made from the new plant, rauwolfia sellowi, act on the nervous system like their Indian counterparts, but with a lower toxic effect...
Peace & Problems. O.A.S. leaders and notably the U.S.'s untiring Latin American Affairs chief, Henry Holland, could take satisfaction from an effective first military application of the 1947 Rio treaty, which provides that every American nation must aid any other American that might be attacked. But no permanent peace has been won. Figueres still despises Somoza and wishes that neighbor Nicaragua were an armyless democracy like Costa Rica. Somoza still hates Figueres and wishes that his good friend Calderón Guardia were running Costa Rica. The Calderonistas still think revolution a more promising route to power than taking...
...make a U.S. lecture tour this fall: "He is having quite a lot of trouble now with his own boys (TIME, Jan. 3). I don't think anybody likes him very much. Since Stalin's death we have seen him going back toward Moscow." Returning to Rio de Janeiro after inaugurating a big power project, Brazil's witty President Café Filho (TIME, Dec. 6) stopped off for a look at a cocoa plantation and suddenly found himself hotfooting it across a field just a few horn's-breadths ahead of a bull that had escaped...
Great River, by Paul Hotgan. A superb history of the Rio Grande country from Indian idylls through Mexican wars down to the present, with the immense landscape as a backdrop (TIME...