Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...train in question is the California Zephyr, and the petitioner was Western Pacific Railroad, one of three railroads (the others: the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Denver & Rio Grande Western) that operate the Zephyr's 2,500-mile-long trip between Chicago and San Francisco. In turning down Western Pacific's request to discontinue its portion of the run-from Salt Lake City to San Francisco and back-the ICC cited assets that have long enchanted Zephyr passengers...
...five years leading up to the ouster of Mexico's last dictator, Porfirio Díaz, in 1911. Arranged in kaleidoscopic profusion are the principal figures, from the greedy courtesans and grasping businessmen who fattened under the Díaz regime to the labor leaders of the 1906 Rio Branco strike and the by-now mythological heroes of the revolution, Zapata, Carranza and Madero...
...chorines drilled by Busby Berkeley, a choreographer whose work would now be called high camp. In a kaleidoscopic display of bangles and bosoms, they articulate 300 legs in unison, like a spangled centipede. With Fred Astaire, Ginger begins a cycle that lasts 16 years-from Flying Down to Rio to The Barkleys of Broadway. The routine never varies: Astaire's pumps beating an impassioned rat-a-tattoo on the shiny floor, Rogers' footwork echoing a moment later in a flippant filigree. It is the era when dancing still means moving together...
...identify the stunning, green-eyed blonde at the side of Florida's newly installed Republican Governor, Claude Kirk, 41. Next day the two disappeared mysteriously, but the ex-husband of Madame X helpfully tried to clear up the puzzle by announcing at his home in Rio de Janeiro that the lady, German-born Erika Mittfeld, 28, would soon marry the Governor, who was divorced last March. Reporters caught up with the couple at the Ocean Reef Club on Key Largo, where they were spending a few days, but the Governor blandly came out with the classic...
...built a water system which is one of the most important in the world. Rio had a terrible problem of water shortage and we more than doubled the capacity for water supply. Half of the cost, about 40 million dollars, was financed by the Inter-American Bank with Alliance for Progress funds. And also in our school program, which was I think, the core of my effort there. Now we have places in the public school for every child, which we didn't have before. And part of it was financed by the Alliance for Progress...