Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind to join the Latin American playmakers. A Town & Country survey showed "gay," war-passed Latin America first choice among most prospective U.S. travelers planning tours abroad. The immediate problem: how to get there? Not for some six months more would the big liners cruise to Santiago, Chile and Rio. The Pan American Highway would take automobilists no farther than Mexico (but some 200,000 would go that far in 1946). The train went only to Central America...
Those who detest escorted tours could pick regular commercial air service: Rio, now 31 hours from Miami, $765 round trip; Chile, 29½ hours, $828 round trip; Mexico City, 18 hours from New York and 7½ hours from Dallas, $223.96 and $91.66 for the round trip. (The introduction of four-engined equipment this spring will cut flying time, reduce fares...
Latins, busily fashioning ways of attracting the tourist dollar, had two chief preoccupations: 1) lack of "first-class accommodations" (hotel rooms in Mexico City and Rio were as scarce as in New York); 2) irksome passport and visa requirements. Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala and Uruguay had made entry easy. Most other Latin American countries...
Trinidad Perez Franco was routed out of comfortable obscurity by Rio newsmen, who tried to make her talk about her famed brother Francisco in Spain, got a discreet reply: "I have not seen Francisco since 1912." But Franco's middle-aged expatriate sister, who runs a suburban fruit store for fun ("I like the colors"), was more colorfully quoted by neighbors: "To hell with Francisco. . . . He was always a little effeminate...
Waste Not, Want Not. In Rio Segundo, Argentina, Baker Felipe Gauna exhumed his wife, cremated her, converted her coffin into a bread-kneading trough...