Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brazil's many and mighty rivers offer a wealth of power-producing capacity, but less than 10% of the country's hydroelectric potential is utilized. Even major cities suffer from a severe kilowatt lag. In Rio de Janeiro, lights often flicker-and sometimes die-and Säo Paulo's massive industrial complexes are perennially pestered by a shortage of juice. Prospects are brighter: a giant project abuilding in south-central Brazil will help illuminate some of the country's dark corners and produce a stream of electricity for its cities...
Such folksy Texas tales are a delightful leavening in this book, squeezed in between recipes for red corncob jelly and descriptions of what it is like to shoot the narrow, roaring rapids on the Rio Grande. After 20 books (Beyond the High Himalayas, A Wilderness Bill of Rights), Author Douglas has proved that he is a more beguiling travel writer and a far more gifted naturalist than one expects from an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This account of his meanderings through the wilderness areas of Texas has one major flaw: the Justice gives such a fascinating picture...
...plane to Rio, he reflected: "I know everyone will say all this is to get publicity in the U.S. But putting aside any question of whether I will run in 1968, I do intend to take a big part in the foreign policy debate. The U.S. economy is so strong that it would take a genius to wreck it. But a small mistake in foreign policy could bring disaster...
With the weariness born of too of ten seeing grandiose plans turn to dust, much of the hemisphere's press was openly skeptical about results of the conference, which Rio de Janeiro's Jornal do Brasil called "nothing but words, timid words." Even while complaining, though, many publications reflected the new mood of self-reliance and independence inspired by the Punta del Este talks. Said Confirmado, an Argentinian weekly: "Latin America has proved that it rejects dreams and prefers at last to go to work." Endorsing the common market, Saāo Paulo's O Estado declared...
...sold his firm to Random House for about $3,000,000, while remaining as board chairman; and Helen Hedrick, 64, sometime novelist (The Blood Remembers, which Knopf published in 1941); both for the second time (his first wife died last year; her husband died in 1963); in Rio de Janeiro...