Word: rio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Augusto Frederico Schmidt, 58, Brazilian poet, politician and entrepreneur, a smalltime merchant's son who wormed his way into Rio society with critically acclaimed verse, through his contacts built up a huge business complex (15 supermarkets in Rio alone), in the 1950s became President Juscelino Kubitschek's top speech writer and the brains behind his "Operation Pan America," forerunner of the Alianza; of a heart attack; in Rio...
Given drivel which follows the plot of Laura right up to the outskirts of Fanny Hill, Director Gordon Douglas (Rio Conchos) makes surprisingly lively entertainment of it. Spirited performers also lend Sylvia a sorely needed touch of class, and Actress Baker schlumps through the role at a wry deadpan pace, obviously enjoying her buildup as Hollywood's sex queen pro tern...
Since receiving his law degree from the Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, Jaguaribe has helped to found several Brazilian institutes for the study of economics, sociology, and politics...
...nearby Zambesi River, bed down on tender sugar shoots and crush them. Even the world's longtime sugar producers are working to fatten yields. Brazil, where sugar has grown in the north for 400 years, is converting many unprofitable coffee areas to sugar in the southern states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Parana, and Mexico has built 71 mills, including the world's biggest one at Vera Cruz. The Philippine Republic has turned so much land to sugar production that a rice shortage has developed...
...government's new National Housing Bank, designed to combat the country's equally critical housing shortage, got its first project under way guaranteeing private loans to builders for 30,000 middle-income homes in Rio alone this year. The bank's target: 18 million houses and apartment units in the next 20 years...