Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Birdwell; fee: $35,000) to get them admitted to the U.S., but he failed. The couple went to Mexico City, where they lived quietly in the dignified old suburb of Coyoacan. Invitations to their small, candlelit parties were sought eagerly. Later they went to Brazil, where they stayed at Rio's Copacabana Palace...
Secretary Patterson was testifying in Washington on behalf of the so-called Truman plan to standardize hemisphere arms out of U.S. arsenals. The U.S. Army & Navy had marshaled their biggest brass to get the bill passed before the Rio conference opens, presumably next month...
...mixed. Big countries were generally for it, though only Argentina, Venezuela and a few others had money enough to pay for what they would get. Chile's President Gabriel González Videla, against the idea last year, changed his mind and came out for the bill in Rio. The little countries were not so sure. Said a Costa Rican: "We have an army of about 100 men. If we get lots of arms and equipment, we'll find ourselves with a real army, a burden on the treasury, with a militarist outlook that would destroy our democracy...
Next step: the long-deferred Rio Conference, now tentatively scheduled for late July, which would draw up a mutual defense treaty for the Americas...
Under the new international bridge, the muddy Rio Uruguay raced in flood. But on the bridge Argentine troopers and Brazilian marines stood at immaculate attention. A strapping figure in the uniform of an Argentine general, and a tired little man in a dark civilian suit advanced toward each other. At midstream the two men snipped a ceremonial tape, then embraced. Thus, last week, after many postponements, Argentina's President Juan Perón and Brazil's President Caspar Eurico Dutra inaugurated the Augustin Justo bridge that links their countries...