Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thousands of government workers were given the day off for the funeral, but they preferred to flock to the beaches. The solemn salute of gunfire every ten minutes from Rio's forts went largely unnoticed. Thus, followed to the very end by the unpopularity that had been his lot in three years as an honest but uncharismatic President of Brazil, Humberto Castello Branco last week went to his grave at the age of 66, victim of a plane crash in the fifth month of his retirement. Said former Planning Minister Roberto Campos in a eulogy: "He had an aversion...
...made other Brazilians appreciate them too. As a boy, he saw the wealthy cariocas fill their gardens with English rosebushes. Sent to Berlin for medical treatment in 1928, he was astonished to discover that botanical gardens in Berlin treasured their greenhouse supplies of Brazilian flora. He returned to Rio, attracted the attention of Le Corbusier, co-architect of the revolutionary Ministry of Education building. Roberto landscaped its gardens with all-Brazilian plants, flowers and grasses. Subsequently he laid out the gardens for most of the major parks in Brazil. The "Monumental Axis" in Brasilia and the immense Flamengo waterfront...
Bamboo & Bromelia. Currently, Roberto is busy landscaping grounds for the Dorado Hilton in Puerto Rico, but he is happiest in the gardens of his mountain country estate 30 miles east of Rio. There he strolls among more than 300 varieties of philodendrons (one of them named by botanists the Philodendron burle marx) and specimens of bromelia. "It is obvious," he says, "that the concept of a garden goes beyond an esthetic composition. It also signifies the necessity of men to live intimately with nature...
Billy Graham has preached before more than 170,000 listeners at a time (in Rio de Janeiro). But last week he described a rally of fewer than 3,000 as "the greatest meeting of my entire ministry." The gathering took place in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, and was the high point of Billy's first preaching venture in a Communist country...
...scheme might not be worth trying on a nationwide basis. Last month the company kicked off a consorcio campaign expected to generate communal purchases of 2,500 cars a month by 1969. Skeptical at first, João Lopes Coelho, director of a dealer-run lottery operation in Rio de Janeiro, lauds the whole idea as "typical of Brazilian ingenuity and flair for gambling, something that is both safe and lucky...