Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called herself Evelyn Hill, produced a news tip that made city-room ears prick up: the Havana whereabouts of Austin Frank Young, 38, Miami-based adventurer who, sentenced to 30 years for conspiring against the Fidel Castro regime, had broken out of a Cuban jail in Pinar del Rio province less than 24 hours earlier...
Plow-Backs. In Brazil, 23 of the 56 top stocks on the Rio and São Paulo exchanges are joint ventures. Japanese interests hold 40% of the USIMINAS steel plant (annual capacity: 500,000 tons), U.S., Canadian, French and Israeli interests are partners with Brazilians in seven cement plants. In Argentina, Kaiser Industries, which makes 2,500 vehicles a month, is owned 51% by Argentine stockholders, 16% by the Argentine Air Force, 33% by the U.S. parent firm...
Married. Dolores Del Rio, 54, durable, still beautiful Mexican-born cinemactress (What Price Glory?); and Lewis A. Riley Jr., 45, TV producer; she for the third time, he for the second; in Newark...
PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, Nov. 30--Cuban military tribunals resumed operations today with two U.S. citizens in the prisoners' dock facing prosecution demands for the death penalty...
...Brazilian music in more than 2,000 works (Bachianas Brasileiras, Seréstas), gloried in the fact that he constantly shifted his style, followed no one line of development or school, founded the Brazilian National Academy of Music, directed massive choruses drawn from all levels of the population; in Rio de Janeiro. In a life of strenuous activity, Villa-Lobos lived up to his own code: "Life is a gamble, and I'm for gambling." He voyaged for nine years in the Amazon jungle to track down hidden native music...