Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate palace, Luis Carlos Prestes, Brazil's No. 1 Communist, popped up one afternoon to return some papers to the Commission of Justice, of which he is a member. He explained that he had been "too busy lately" to work on them. One evening in downtown Rio, a group called "The Friends of Paraguay" met to hear a Negro actor read the poems of U.S. leftist Langston Hughes. They were so moved that they soon addressed each other, not as "friend," but as "comrade." In the sultry Vermelinho (The Little Red One), a sidewalk cafe, Communist literati flocked again...
...Battle. What next? The Communists would fight their ban. In a 15th-floor office on Rio's main-stem Avenida Rio Branco, moon-faced Communist Lawyer Sinval Palmeira clutched the multipage appeal he will present to the Supreme Tribunal. He had a diplomatic good word for the Yankees. "The U.S. Constitution," he said, "is helping me to write...
...weather-wizened old rancher from west Texas stuffed $60,000 in his jeans and headed for the town of Del Rio on the Rio Grande River. He was going to bet the whole caboodle on the queen of quarter horses, a chestnut mare named Shue...
Chicago Theater of the Air (Sat. 10 p.m., Mutual). Rio Rita, with Marion Claire, Bruce Foote...
...Milton, 85, oldtime, rootin'-shootin' law enforcer of the Wild West; in Tucson, Ariz. During a career that made a Hollywood horse opera seem tame, Milton was a Texas Ranger, deputy sheriff in once-lawless Apache County, Ariz., police chief of El Paso, a one-man Rio Grande border patrol (from El Paso "to hell & gone"). He once went after three train-robbing desperados, wired back: "Send two coffins and one doctor...