Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rio's flashiest suburbs-Copacabana-has 16,000 empty apartments, and through the city there are thousands of others. But there is also a housing shortage...
...their fashion, Pepi's counterparts in London (Hugh Shaw), Rio de Janeiro (José Gallo), Cairo (Abdel Basset El Taher) and Shanghai (the three Wongs) are equally adept. Shaw, a small, taciturn, greying Englishman whose way with automobiles approaches genius, will be long remembered by the squads of photographers he maneuvered through London's blazing streets for vantage shots of the blitz. Gallo is a politically indispensable young man who has somehow made himself welcome at the headquarters of all of Brazil's political parties. Abdel, an Upper Egypt man with the Egyptians' fine feeling...
...former days the analogy was pressed to regarding the Charles as the Rio Grande, since Latin Americans seemed to cross both in profusion to find a home. Although Dunster was known for a time as a residence of all South American students in the College, Winthrop now boasts more members from the southern half of the hemisphere...
...World Bavaria. During the '30s, as good Volksdeutsche, they had gone heim ins Reich (home to the Reich). War trapped them, but apparently they had not minded too much. Although Brazil was at war with Germany (and had a division of troops in action) none of Rio's visitors complained of having been sent to concentration camps...
After Germany fell, the 705 began to lean hard on their Brazilian citizenship. They drifted into D.P. camps and finally wangled a ride back to Brazil. Stalking off their ship last week in Rio, they sounded anything but reconstructed. For the Nazi war criminals, they had no word of censure; for U.S. and British treatment, they had nothing but gripes...