Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in keeping with his austerity program, he dismayed the capital bureaucracy and the foreign diplomatic corps by announcing that the government would remain in steaming Rio during this year's hot season (mid-December through mid-March) instead of moving to the 26-mile-distant city of Petropolis, up in the cool mountains, as Brazilian chiefs of state have done since the days of Emperor (1822-31) Pedro I. "This government has no time for a vacation," Café Filho explained...
...Filho has conspicuously neglected to get rich. At 55, he has no savings to speak of. no income except his salary.* Instead of moving into the ornate presidential suite in Catete Palace, he continues to live, as he has since 1944, in a middleclass, three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Avenue. Three bedrooms are none too many: the President, his wife Jandira and their only son Eduardo, 11, share the place with Jan-dira's mother and sister, both widows...
...three days before Congress is scheduled to consider the veto. The doctors said that only skeleton medical crews would remain on duty to handle emergencies. But the President held firm, relying on Congress to uphold his anti-inflation program. For the delegates to the Hemisphere economic conference in Rio this week, the doctors' dilemma was a capsule review of Brazil's financial illness and Café Filho's strong medicine...
...part from the loans-and-aid recommendations of Milton Eisenhower, who toured Latin America a year ago on behalf of the President. But what the U.S. proposes to offer seems to be far short of what the Latin Americans would like. If the Latinos are let down at Rio, their disappointment may generate the most serious era of bad feeling since the Good Neighbor Policy began...
...America depends almost solely on the U.S. for the means to develop its immense resources. Since the turn of the century, the U.S. has poured more direct private investments into Latin America ($6 billion plus) than into either Europe, Canada or the combined remainder of the world. Between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn there are 2,000 U.S. enterprises: oil companies, mines, auto factories, power plants, banana plantations...