Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether accurate or not, for a few tense days last week the sensational disclosures threatened to topple autocratic old (71) Getulio Vargas from power. Opposition Deputies demanded that Vargas resign. One morning a mob of 2,000 swarmed up the Avenida Rio Branco, shouting: "Down with Vargas," tore down Luthero's campaign posters and overturned and set fire to a campaign car bearing pro-Vargas slogans...
...fiery crusade against Communism, corruption and President Getulio Vargas, Rio Journalist Carlos Lacerda has gained tens of thousands of loyal friends, scores of vengeful enemies. The 40-year-old editor of Tribune da Imprensa (circ. 50,000) has been beaten by thugs for criticizing the army, arrested for exposing police graft, jailed four times for political reasons, attacked in his home after accusing a high officer of corruption. Recently a pistol-toting hothead tried but failed to provoke the editor to a duel...
Victim's Accusation. Few of Lacerda's fellow editors cared or dared to go so far, but all of Rio was roundly shocked. Even the Tribuna's old rival, Ultima Hora, declared the shooting "a crime which under no circumstances can be justified." Major Vaz's fellow air-force officers warned that "If the police don't solve this, we will," and promptly began their own investigation of the shooting. A cabbie who had driven one of the assassins to and from the scene was arrested, but at week's end the assailants...
Main Go. In Rio Cuarto, Argentina, after a 500-lb. bear had tossed him for three falls, Professional Boxer Francisco Escribano 1) demanded a rematch and threw "Bobo" three times, 2) found that the backers of the event had welshed on his $140 prize because "the bear always wins and never asks for money," 3) nobly dissuaded outraged circus spectators from burning down the tent, 4) attached the circus' box office for the amount of the prize, 5) stood a chance of becoming Bobo's owner as well as conqueror...
...Sacred Button. Peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee) is a small, carrot-shaped cactus that grows wild in the valley of the Rio Grande. Cut off and dried, its top forms a bitter-tasting "button" that, eaten or brewed as tea, is capable of strong and strange effects upon the mind. Just what the effects are has not yet been scientifically determined.* The Indians have known about peyote for centuries; Cortez' men found the Aztecs using it when they invaded Mexico. It has always been associated with religious ceremony...