Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter rolled on. Windstorms battered the Pacific Northwest. A blizzard keened over the Rockies. At Toltec Gorge in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, as a Denver & Rio Grande Western passenger train wound through the night, an avalanche of snow hurtled down, picked the last three cars off their narrow-gauge track and carried them over the lip of the precipice. One car went down 30 feet, the other two some 400 (see cut). But all 14 occupants miraculously came out alive. Another snow avalanche, in Difficult Creek Canyon, near Aspen, Colo., killed Skier Alexander McFadden, socialite Memphis cotton...
President Gabriel González Videla is an energetic man who likes to go places and do things, usually decides to go and do them on the spur of the moment. In a little more than a year in office, he has flown to Rio and Buenos Aires, swum ashore from a capsized rowboat on a south Chilean lake, and crash-dived aboard a U.S. submarine off Valparaiso. In his fancy presidential DC-3, he has visited so many local fairs that Chileans are sure his travels already exceed those of all his predecessors put together. Their nickname for their...
...Road to Rio (Paramount...
Walking down Rio's Avenida Rio Branco with Joao de Barro last week was like taking a stroll with Joe Louis in Harlem. Friends embraced him, girls waved, shoeshine boys grinned admiringly. Joāo, whose real name is Carlos Braga, is no boxer, but last week he was champ. In a land where everyone loves song, Joāo had written (with Collaborator Alberto Ribeiro) the song everybody was singing...
...Road to Rio. Crosby, Hope & Lamour stroll down Hollywood's easiest road to laughs (TIME...