Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatly distressed to see that in a story on Brazil entitled "Land of No Divorce" (TiME, Sept. 10), the name of Dr. Francisco Campos of Rio de Janeiro, onetime Minister of Justice and Interior, was mentioned in connection with an incident in the story...
...city's ordeal began in the spring of 1950: five cases cropped up, caught hold, and multiplied with raging speed. By winter, 1,459 schoolchildren had infected scalps, and the Soo was in the midst of the worst ringworm epidemic ever recorded north of the Rio Grande. Itching heads were thrust under ultraviolet lamps to make the disease show up, shaved, scrubbed, treated with salves, and encased in sterile white cotton caps to prevent spreading. Doctors tried new drugs by the score. Special X-ray clinics were set up, and skilled radiologists were brought in to treat the itchy...
...oppose divorce say that "if it is bad without divorce, it would be worse with it." The church points to relatively successful divorceless societies in Argentina and Colombia, remembers that it fought down divorce proposals in Brazil in 1937 and 1946. Bishop Vicente Scherer of the state of Rio Grande do Sul called for "prayers to God to take away from Brazil the calamity which threatens Christian families." Defeat seemed likely for Carneiro's bill...
Last week, in the Congress at Rio, Deputy Nelson Carneiro argued for a bill which would punch a loophole in the constitution by providing annulments for incompatibility-under strict controls. The impossibility of legally ending a marriage, he believed, was the root of intolerable matrimonial tangles in Brazil. At every pause in his 98-page speech, Carneiro was rebutted by a sharp-witted Roman Catholic priest, Monsignor Arruda Camara, who is also a Deputy. Monsignor Arruda held out against the slightest relaxation of the constitutional provision. Cried he to Carneiro: "Where the constitution says 'marriage is an indissoluble...
...arguing for loosening the law, Carneiro had in mind the evasions which estranged Brazilians have practiced for years. The rich are frequently divorced and remarried abroad. Those who cannot afford to travel often get Uruguayan and Mexican divorces through Rio lawyers. Other Brazilians separated from their spouses simply move a new "wife" into the house without any semblance of divorce or new marriage. This happens even in top society. A decade ago, Francisco Campos, a cabinet minister, split from his wife and living with another woman, offered a bril liant formal reception, held his mistress' arm, and announced, "From...