Word: rio
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...first cable from Rio de Janeiro to reach TIME'S foreign desk a fortnight ago reported the suicide story of President Getulio Vargas. It ended with a terse footnote: "Impossible reach office now blocked by police investigating killing of boy outside building. Plan file picemeal updating whenever possible sit down and write...
Thus did Piero Saporiti, former TIME Bureau Chief in Madrid, move into his new post as Bureau Chief in Rio. Following is his fuller explanation of the footnote...
...Only When Dead." The shock that finally blew the lid off was last month's sensational attempt on the life of Rio's famed crusading Editor Carlos Lacerda (TIME Aug. 16 et seq.). The three gunmen who ambushed him only managed to shoot Lacerda in the foot; but they killed an air force major who accompanied him. In blazing editorials Lacerda charged that members of President Vargas' bodyguard had done the job at the order of Vargas' son Luthero. The air force demanded that Vargas must go. Vargas refused. But last week the army, final arbiter...
Lawyer son of a famous Indian fighter who lived to be 99, Vargas first rode out of Rio Grande do Sul in 1930 at the head of a gaucho army and seized the presidency. In power. Vargas rapidly won a name as the smartest politician in South...
Died. Getulio Vargas. 71. onetime (1930-45) dictator and, since 1950, the constitutionally-elected President of Brazil; by his own hand (shooting); in Rio de Janeiro (see HEMISPHERE...