Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TEAU. French Screenwriter Jean-Paul Rappeneau (That Man From Rio) makes his directorial debut with a fresh and funny farce about the German Occupation and the French preoccupation...
...Latin America hand who was our man in Central America two decades ago. He then was called to New York, where he wrote Latin American news and, after becoming a senior editor, was in charge of various sections of the magazine. Three months ago, he moved to Rio de Janeiro as chief of bureau and senior South American correspondent. We asked Bill about his new duties, and he cabled...
...hard to make a sum-up. Work is work anywhere. 1 have saudades [yearnings] for New York that have to be cured by thinking hard about how the trains don't run very well there-and how the New York Central tracked me down in Rio with a bill for a January commutation ticket that I never got or used. If I ever get back, though, I will have saudades of equal strength for here...
...officials living here, the bank employees there, the military officers over there. Artificially created to open up the frontier and shift the country's balance westward, Brasilia was long considered the "mad city" that Ku-bitschek built, was shunned by officials, who preferred to spend their time in Rio. But Brasilia has been made more attractive with bright colors and expensive trees and shrubs, and its fine university draws students from all over Brazil. Even its night life has picked up, and fully 30 of the federal deputies defeated in last year's elections decided to remain...
...regional development agency, called SUDENE, is luring new industry with special tax incentives and is helping build a $37 million potassium-fertilizer factory, a $44 million caustic-soda plant and an $11 million tire plant. Brazil is building the new $25 million, 15-story Panorama Palace Hotel on a Rio hill side overlooking Copacabana Beach; it will be Latin America's largest and lushest hotel. The massive 4,000,000-kw. Urubupunga Project going up on the Parana River in south-central Brazil, one of the largest hydroelectric complexes in the world, is part of a program to push...