Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rio, ex-King Carol of Rumania and his Madame Lupescu paraded down the mosaic sidewalks that curl along the slim half-moon of Copacabana beach. Tens of thousands of cariocas, impelled by a summer heat wave, dashed into the Atlantic's cool, green breakers. At Argentina's Mar del Plata, the Unzues and the Martinez de Hozes and all the other upper-crusters sunned themselves at private beach clubs, far from the madding crowd, and seldom swam (the water was too cold...
Only five republics (including the U.S.) had accepted. Most of the others said no, or had reservations to the Uruguayan proposal on intervention (TIME, Dec. 3). But the point last week was whether to discuss the proposal at the Inter-American Conference at Rio next spring. To do so would raise the hot issue of Argentine violations of the basic rights of man. This was exactly what the U.S. wanted...
...concede defeat, and at week's beginning only a third of the votes had been counted. But the latest returns told the story. Gomes' popularity in the capital, which had convinced the press, foreign embassies and correspondents that he would be the winner, was borne out-in Rio. But in industrial Sāo Paulo, in Vargas' southern gaúcho country, in the hinterland generally, the functionaries of the old regime had turned out enough votes for Dutra to override Gomes...
Gomes has been called both an ultra-nationalist and "the most pro-American man in Brazil." He neither smokes nor drinks, goes regularly to Mass, is a bachelor (but Rio rumor said last week he might marry a Spanish Socialist). In the campaign his democratic backers played on the handsome Gomes' appeal, advised Brazil's recently enfranchised women to "vote for the Brigadier, handsome and single...
...Aerovias Brasil, S.A. (TACA's Brazilian subsidiary) started flying in 1942 from the backlands of Brazil via Porto Nacional to Miami to haul rock crystal. With DC-35 acquired only four months ago, it now competes with Pan Am for passenger traffic between Rio de Janeiro and Miami...