Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil was an unhappy host to unwelcome guests; 705 exiles, fresh from Germany, had turned up in Rio. Because they happened to be Brazilian citizens they were admitted...
Investment. In Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Quadros responded to a hospital's appeal for blood donors, fell off a streetcar next day and lost a leg, pulled through with a transfusion of his own blood...
...evidence that a rising tide of Leftism is sweeping Latin America came this winter when Communists south of the Rio Grande did all but one of these...
...best hammock that the remote town of Rio Branco could provide, lean Alexander Daveron relaxed and invited his soul. What he would do next he had no idea. But of one thing he was certain-mules would have no part...
Shortly thereafter, Daveron and the R.D.C. agents in Rio had a difference of opinion. Daveron wanted to push west through the plains of Bolivia, then north to the rubber country. The R.D.C. preferred the route that followed the old telegraph line strung diagonally across the great Brazilian plateau by General Candido Mariano Rondon, a famed Indianologist. Neither side budged. So the R.D.C., despairing of the mules project, sold most of the beasts...