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...Rio de Janeiro, city of delights; By day there is no water, At night there are no lights. -Carnival song...
...month now, the most glamorous city under the Southern Cross has been dining by candlelight, but hardly from choice. Rio has been plunged into its most serious power shortage since 1904, when a company eventually taken over by the Canadian-owned Brazilian Traction, Light & Power Co. brought the city its first electricity and enlightened Brazilian parents began naming their sons Edison-still a favorite first name in Brazil...
...signs stop flashing. Worst of all are the daily blackouts, which hit 48 city zones in turn for periods varying between 30 and 50 minutes beginning at twilight each evening. Elevators stop, TV sets go blank, street lights blink off. As the lights finally return in darkened bars across Rio, a cry rises from dwellers in tall apartment buildings: "Give me one for the elevator...
...impact of these imaginings was widespread. In Rio de Janeiro, a group of architects, including Oscar Niemeyer, designed the Brazilian ministry of Education and Health (1939-1943), incorporating Le Corbusier's ideas -- stilts, sun-breakers, roof-garden, cubist design of windows and balconies. Niemeyer's plans for Brasilia also show the impact of Le Corbusier...
...tell it, many U.S. railroads would-and do. The ICC, at the urging of Midwestern roads, is knuckle-rapping some lines for holding onto boxcars from other lines for their own use. It has filed twelve suits against railroads and has five more upcoming, has already fined the Denver & Rio Grande for 14 violations. "Everybody's crying for boxcars," says Homer Wilson, superintendent of transportation for the Illinois Central...