Word: rios
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Some of the projects on Orive Alba's calendar are called Mexican TVAs. One will dam the picturesque Papaloapan River near Veracruz, another will use the waters of the Rio del Fuerte, near the Gulf of California, in northwest Mexico. A third project: a joint U.S.-Mexican scheme to use waters from the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) to irrigate 500,000 acres on each side of the river and generate 200 million kilowatts for joint use. Of the three dams to be built, the first alone will cost more than $35,000,000, of which the U.S. will...
...Rio had seen floating fairs before. But the new arrival from Italy-a Government-sponsored job with actors and opera and a portable stadium-was even more elaborate than the showcases that the Japs had sent over before...
Buenos Aires citizens had heard about such artistic and philosophic vagaries from Dadaism and surrealism to existentialism, yawned at the Madists, and that was not to be borne. This week the Madists were across the Rio de la Plata estuary in Uruguay, seeking a new public. In Montevideo's Salon Aiape, visitors gaped and grinned at sculpture of strangely articulated sticks of wood by Giyulia Kosice (see cut), an irregularly framed abstract painting by Arden Quinn, a collection of odd pieces of paper covered with gibberish...
Shooting Affair. In Rio de Janeiro, Teodoro Salim saw a woman walking with his fiancee, shot at her, was arrested, said he thought he was shooting his future mother...
...year out of the Brazilian dictatorship, shrewd little Getulio had lain low on his southern ranch while his successors bungled the return to democracy, compounded inflation, let Brazilians go hungry. Last week, before a rally of his own Labor Party members in his own cattle-raising state of Rio Grande do Sul, Vargas blamed his downfall on "foreign financial interests," who were jealous of his plans to make Brazil economically independent, let go at President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his Government...