Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something different is offered at the Cave, the Club Rio, the French Village, Showtime, and the Village Barn, as the names imply. For those fellas who like those fellas, there's always the College...
After the war, when Brazil's Communist party had not yet been outlawed, a handful of able Communist schemers moved in on Rio's Club Militar, an old social and fraternal organization open to all Brazilian officers. Organizing Cell No. 2 of their Democratic Front of National Liberation inside the club, they gained influence by lobbying in Congress for more pay and privileges for officers. In the club's 1950 elections, they helped elect as club president General Newton Estillac Leal, the candidate of Getulio Vargas, then launching his political comeback; at the same time, they worked...
Last week, on the day before the scheduled vote, officers flocked to Rio from all over Brazil. Commies strung wires into the high-ceilinged hall of the Club Militar, prepared to broadcast their last-minute speeches by loudspeaker into the streets below. That evening the War Minister was summoned by President Vargas. After an hour's conference, Estillac Leal went straight to the club, announced that he was resuming the presidency and-to permit "a cooling-off of passions"-postponed the referendum for 30 days...
That information did not come from this bureau. It is well known in all of Rio de Janeiro that Dr. Campos was in no way connected with the incident...
FRANK WHITE TIME Inc. Rio de Janeiro...