Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Latin America, where government violations of the press are the order of the day. the Inter-American Press Association is the only organized voice of press freedom. Last week, at its tenth annual meeting in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the outspoken representatives of 390 newspapers and magazines from the Western Hemisphere demonstrated why I.A.P.A. has become the most effective force for an unfettered press in Latin America...
...that he formed Chicago & Southern Air Lines in 1934. When C. & S. merged with Delta last year, Putnam tangled with Delta President C. E. Woolman over the lower-echelon jobs given C. & S. executives. ¶ Gale B. ("Gus") Aydelott, 40, became vice president and general manager of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, as such will be the line's top operating boss. He succeeds K. L. Moriarty, who went to work for New York Central President A. E. Perlman, formerly executive vice president of the D. & R. G. W. Starting as a D. & R. G. W. gang laborer...
Understandably, counting was slow. At week's end, many candidates were still not sure whether they had won or lost. But the tallying was far enough along to show that Vargas' vengeful legacy had failed to kindle a political bonfire. In Rio, Vargas' son Luthero won a House of Deputies seat; but so did Tribuna da Imprensa Editor Carlos Lacerda, the late President's fiercest newspaper critic. In Vargas' home state of Rio Grande do Sul, at week's end, the hand-picked president of the Vargas-created Labor Party, Joao Goulart...
...aggressively charming Pianist Liberace, 34, whose best friend has always been his mother, proclaimed to his panting public that he is "still a free man," has no immediate plans to marry a nightclub dancer named Joanne Rio, whom he met four years ago in a Hollywood church. "I have to wait out the projects." giggled he. "Another year won't make me an old man." No sooner did he thus spike rumors of romance than one of his other projects panned out. An Oklahoma oil well, half-owned by Liberace and his ever-present brother George, blew itself...
Until last summer, Palmer's project was progressing smoothly. He had persuaded a U.S. company to make the recordings at cost and to provide free record players. He had lined up professional entertainers (including Dolores del Rio, Bing Crosby, Andy Russell and Mexico's Cantinflas) to sing songs and tell stories. He planned to record Mexican classics and concerts, hoped to have a series of Mexican travelogues "so that the blind can appreciate the beauties they can never see." Such notables as Mexico City's Archbishop Luis Mario Martinez had given his project their blessings; a department...