Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technically, Rio has always been a temporary capital. The Constitution of Independence in 1824 called for a federal district (on U.S. lines) somewhere near the geographical center of the country; four succeeding constitutions repeated the provision. But nothing ever came of the idea, despite its periodic champions. Last week, poker-faced President Dutra said that he was dead serious about building a permanent federal capital in the dry, wild, highland cattle country of the deep interior...
From green hilltops to white beaches Rio echoed with speeches and campaign songs, and the walls were splashed with posters. Seven hundred candidates-a mixed bag of newsmen, poets, businessmen, radio humorists, housewives and even a bookmaker-were noisily campaigning for the 50 council seats at stake in next month's municipal elections. They represented 14 political parties...
...organized samba clubs, ran off dancing contests. Winners got loving cups marked with such slogans as "More If You Want It" and "Each Year It's Better." Observers gave the Communists a good chance to win a majority of the council, wondered how they would get along with Rio's Government-appointed mayor who might not have much use for them...
...Baron. One Communist up for election was Rio's chief wag, the gentle, bearded Apparicio Torelly. A celebrated journalist, he is known to most Brazilians as the Baron of Itararé. He took that pseudonym after writing, during one of the country's revolutions, a series on the Battle of the Itararé River-a battle that occurred only in his typewriter...
Last week cariocas by the hundreds queued up on hot Rio docks to board the Lugano, a rehabilitated 13,000-ton troopship. On board, they gaped at a 250,000-book exhibit, some 1,000 paintings (mostly bad), modern ceramics, Chianti in wicker baskets, baby pants and electric iceboxes. All displays were for sale; they sold like nylons to Brazilians, who were used to paying more for their own shoddy products...