Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture never attains the excitement of the Eric Ambler novel on which it is based. Orson Welles overacts; Dolores Del Rio, as a dancer who tries to take the engineer's mind off his fears, has a superfluous part, and Joseph Gotten does not match his excellent performance in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (TIME...
...From Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, after a frantic search, went an iron lung. From Buenos Aires, where a Pan American plane made a special stop, to São Paulo went Johnson & Johnson's Vice President Andrew Rohlfing, only man within reach who knew how an iron lung was operated. The reason: Getulio Vargas Jr., youngest son of Brazil's President, had suddenly been taken ill in São Paulo, was in serious condition with infantile paralysis...
Bald, rumpled Foreign Minister Alberto Guani of Uruguay, en route for a visit to the U.S., paused last week in Rio de Janeiro's swank Copacabana Hotel to give a tip on a new trend in South America foreign policies. Over ham, potato salad and agua mineral he told reporters...
...likewise visiting Washington, had confirmed a report that his nation was negotiating with Russia for an exchange of diplomatic representatives. Venezuela and Ecuador were also considering the step. Russia, unrecognized in Latin America until last autumn (when Cuba and Mexico took the plunge), was becoming known south of the Rio Grande...
Vice and deputy consul-general at Rio de Janeiro, 1903-4; vice consul at Nagasaki, Japan, 1904-5; consul at Vladivostok, 1905-7; vice president in the Far East of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1927-29; acting director of Peiping Union Medical College, 1927-35; member of the American Society of International Law, Council on Foreign Affairs, and the Oriental Association; general director of the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation...