Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gate of a Rio hospital one morning last week, a young woman brought a pain-racked old man holding a bloodstained towel to his face. "For the love of God, open up!" she cried. "My father needs a doctor!" The gate stayed shut...
...gave us too few 'yesses' but their 'noes' were said with grace," remarked a Latin American delegate to the inter-American economic conference at Rio. To the end last week, the U.S. delegation stuck amicably but steadfastly to the main line laid down at the beginning by Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey: a promise of "expanded" loans from the Export-Import Bank and the World Bank, together with an urgent recommendation that the Latin nations try to attract more private U.S. capital...
Inflation inhibits foreign investment in Brazil, and lessens the country's eligibility for loans or direct aid from Washington. It has also had a disastrous effect on Brazilian workers. The real wages of many workers in Rio shrank within the past five years, as beef soared from 9 cruzeiros a kilogram in 1950 to 46 today, butter from 34 to no. One of the odder symptoms of mass discontent is the mushroom growth of umbanda or espiritismo, a white-magic religious cult with elaborate African rituals. There were 75,000 registered espiri-tistas in Rio...
...pronounces (approximately) as Zho-wahn Kah-Jay Feel-yo. *'Six hundred thousand cruzeiros a year-$8,500 at the current free rate. *But after he became President, his first non-military caller was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Rio...
...himself in "full accord" with Fulton. Henry Holland, State Department chief for Latin American Affairs, growled that "under our system [Fulton] has a right to say anything he wants." Peppery U.S. Ambassador James Scott Kemper poured oil on the fire by canceling the Congressman's invitation to a Rio embassy reception just as Fulton finished dressing for the party...