Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Excitement followed peripatetic Ava Gardner wherever she went. Arriving with her entourage in Rio de Janeiro for a publicity tour, Ava stepped off her plane with her prettiest professional smile. But she soon lost her temper when she was instructed to go through the police, health and customs routine, just like any other traveler. As she opened each piece of luggage, Ava got angrier and angrier, while the customs inspector got increasingly conscientious and methodical. At length she fumed: "Let's get the first plane out of this place. They're a bunch of savages...
...Daily News, Detroit Free Press, Akron Beacon Journal, Miami Herald) got word that he will be the first recipient of the La Prensa Prize for American Friendship. The award, established in 1950 by Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, Buenos Aires' exiled publisher of La Prensa, will be made in Rio de Janeiro next month to honor Publisher Knight's "courageous leadership in fighting for press freedom" throughout the Americas...
...from Madrid to Rio, I read books on Brazil that praised the country's beauty, relaxed way of life and the gentle character of the peace-loving Brazilians. As I stepped off the M.S. Augustus on the morning of Aug. 18, my plans were to take it easy for a week or so to get acquainted with the new climate, people and city. Rio came up to all my hopes and expectations-yet there was a tenseness in the air. Armed troops patrolled the streets, and the press was full of violent polemics and screaming headlines. My plans...
More complications piled up. Cable companies, in a downtown area blocked off by police, were unable to send messengers to pick up our copy. However, our driver Mário found mysterious ways to get through to the cable offices. The possibility of getting pictures out on time seemed dubious. Pan American operations were disrupted, customs were closed, and the road to the international airport was cordoned off by police. The problem was solved by an obliging New York-bound passenger who agreed to take the pictures...
...Flight to Asylum. Brazil's new president is proud of his long career as a champion of the little man. As an editor-politician from northeast Brazil, Café Filho bucked the old Vargas dictatorship so vigorously that he had to flee to asylum in a Rio embassy. When he returned to Congress after World War II, as floor leader for the Social Progressive Party, he sat at his old desk on the opposition side. But his party bosses, after nominating him for Vice President in 1950, withdrew their own presidential nominee in return for Vargas' support...