Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ERNEST S. PARK Lieutenant Commander, U.S.N. Rio de Janeiro
...issue this time was control of Rio's Clube Militar, an august social and fraternal organization open to all Brazilian officers. Firmly entrenched in the club, the Communists had taken over its monthly magazine, Revista do Clube Militar, published made-in-Moscow editorials blasting the Korean campaign as "Wall Street imperialism" and U.N. troops as "butchers." And even after Vargas dismissed him as Brazil's War Minister, Estillac Leal still held his job as the club's president...
Rudenberg, who left for Brazil and Uruguay by plane over the weekend, was invited by these countries to give lectures on his subject. During May and June, he will talk at the University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of the Sao Paulo in Brazil and the University of Montevideo in Uruguay...
Weather permitting, the varsity and freshman tennis teams will travel to Providence tomorow to play Brown. The varsity will be trying to even up its record with a fourth victory against four losses. The Yardlings, led by newly-elected Captain Alex Haegler (below) of Rio de Janeiro and Matthews Hall, will be after their third consecutive victory of the season...
TIME's reporter on Rio's favelas [TIME, March 31] missed an interesting sidelight for U.S. readers. If he ... visited "the human anthills," he must have passed St. Francis Friary . . . where live the U.S. Conventual Franciscans whose parish includes these notorious shantytowns. Two of these priests had been working singlehandedly among the favelados long before Dr. Guilherme Ribeiro Romano appeared on the scene . . . Helped by folks back home, these young Franciscans built and have maintained medical clinics and social centers, schools and chapels on Kerosene, Escondidinho and São Carlos Hills. [One] . . . piped water up the hill...