Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GILBERT J. HUBER RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
...which also disappointed Catholics in India and the Philippines), but there was mathematical logic to them. Spain, with a Catholic population of 28 million-slightly less than the U.S.-had only two cardinals before this year, as compared with four in the U.S. Brazil, which now has three cardinals (Rio, São Paulo and Bahia), claims a Catholic population of 53 million...
...Dallas Insuranceman Robert Baxter, who had made this exultant boast in mid-1948: "This is a great world, and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas is the greatest state in the U.S. and Dallas is the greatest city in Texas and the Rio Grande [National Life Insurance Co.] is the greatest insurance company in Dallas." That quotation had been used in TIME'S 1948 year-end business review, which Miller had written, to epitomize that year's booming business...
...sport-car drivers entered, 64 more were ready to try their luck in a separate division for modified U.S. stock cars. Ahead of the racers lay 1,946 miles of torturous mountain roads and sun-baked desert in the "run for the river," the finish at the Rio Grande city of Juarez, across the U.S. border from El Paso...
...rapidly rusting links with South America are an example of how even the staunchest of friendships can die of neglect. Ever since the Rio de Janiero pact of 1947, American foreign policy strategists have been too engrossed in Europe and Asia to bother with the continent beneath them. As a result, a half-dozen anti-American rulers have moved into the erstwhile Good Neighborhood, and an active hate-America campaign is under...