Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maybe when the Brazilians south of Rio have made their million dollars in sufficiency they will look to the needs of their very much poorer countrymen who live in those filthy shacks so scientifically camouflaged by the magnificent buildings in and around Copacabana . . . From what I could see, Brazil, north of Rio, is as appalling as India, but maybe it doesn't smell quite...
...once famous. Some Brazilians guessed last week that he is just waiting for the right moment to make himself dictator again. Others say he is trying so hard to govern constitutionally that he lets a disorganized Congress mess up all his measures. But another story heard in Rio is that Getulio, now 68, just does not care any more, that all he really wanted was the vindication of electoral victory...
...News. In Rio de Janeiro, after a snake bit him, Francisco Feliciano chased and caught the viper, bit it to death...
...Brazil, the "land of tomorrow," Sáo Paulo is the city of today. Last week in Sáo Paulo, Brazil's second city, a filling-station attendant watched a convoy of new trucks rolling down the highway to Rio, straight through a blinding tropical storm. Said he, with matter-of-fact pride: "Paulistas don't stop for anything." High in his 27-story skyscraper, a businessman explained judiciously: "We are Brazil. Without us, what would there...
Since late 1950, when the Rio Military Club's magazine ran some blatantly Communist-line articles attacking U.N. and U.S policy in Korea, Brazilians have wondered uneasily just how far the Reds might have bored into their army. Last month, the Rio newspaper Correio da Manhá reported that the Reds had indeed worked their way into some key places. According to Correio, General Victor César da Cunha, a Communist sympathizer, is now subcommandant of Rio's infantry division, and Colonel Henrique Oeste, a former Communist deputy in Congress, commands the brigade stationed on the Bolivian...