Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Castoff. In Rio de Janeiro, Amalia, an aging elephant, took sick, was purged, passed an old tennis shoe...
Last week a somewhat shaky bridge had been found: the Pan American Union began to poll its members on postponement of the Rio conference. Onto the bridge stepped Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes: postponement would be agreeable to the U.S. if other nations wanted it. Then the Colombians, who will entertain all 21 republics at a regular Pan American conference at Bogotá next December, obligingly suggested that the whole business of a military treaty be put off till then...
...singing in a slanted hat, sharp tux and cocked eyebrow, and still France's No. 1 music-hall darling, set himself for a round-the-hemisphere tour in a one-man show. The greying song-&-dance man would tour the Alps first, then go to Buenos Aires and Rio, then hop to Canada. Then, if his plans panned out, he would do a coast-to-coast tour...
...result of the ensuing storm, his friends decided that he had been "abused" long enough. Last week 500 left-wingers, including Diego Rivera and Dolores del Rio, who extended the hand of fellowship (see cut), gathered in big, drafty Chapultepec Restaurant in Mexico City, gave Lombardo a dreamed-up award: "Decoration of the Combatant." Citation: the Mexican "most assailed by reactionaries and imperialists...
...Latin America Carnival still flourished. In Rio de Janeiro, the army guarded tumultuous streets of richly costumed revelers against excesses. In Quito, Ecuadoreans indulged in a week's frenzy of drenching each other (and especially policemen) with water-bombs and buckets, strewed flour on passersby...