Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wall Street's tremors reverberated last week through Rome's Via Parigi, Rio's Avenida Rio Branco and Hong Kong's Queen's Road Central. With tens of thousands of non-American investors holding stakes in the U.S. stock market, foreign trading on the New York Stock Exchange rose from $5.8 billion in 1961 to $7.8 billion last year, when it accounted for more than 5% of all Big Board transactions. One reason for the market's weakness is that the foreigners have been selling. Last year they sold $409 million more than they...
...metropolis even approaches the appalling anarchy of far-off cities such as Calcutta, Hong Kong, Rio or Tokyo, the worst areas of urban America have in varying degrees almost every ill to which the industrial society has fallen heir: unemployment, disease, crime, drug addiction, poor education, family disintegration-and slums. The middle class, the bulwark of good government in any community, continues as a result to migrate to the suburbs, helping to create the problem of proliferating racial ghettos. Almost every major U.S. city must fight advancing physical decay and increasing squalor, particularly for Negro populations, which within 15 years...
...BRAZIL Under the Secretariat of Agriculture, Volunteers will work with primary school children in agricultural and other community projects to help them become better farmers, homes economics and citizens. They with form, reactivate or strengthens agriculture clubs in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Mines Gerais...
...morning." On Saturday nights he toured the cafes with a bunch of the boys?Milhaud, Auric, Poulenc?and helped popularize their music, as well as that of his friends Debussy, Saint-Saens, Ravel and Heitor Villa-Lobos (whom he had discovered playing the cello in the pit of a Rio de Janeiro movie theater...
Belmondo seems to have enjoyed himself more in A Woman is a Woman than in That Man From Rio. This film permitted him to be much more relaxed and spontaneous, qualities very essential to his kind of humor. While A Woman is a Woman may not be Godard's best work, the film proves beyond dispute that outright comedy is well within the compass of the New Wave...