Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, Lewenthal went to Europe to resume his career. For three years, he lived out of a suitcase and slept on park benches. Promised a teaching job in Rio de Janeiro, he wrangled free passage on a steamer only to find upon his arrival that the job was nonexistent. Destitute, he went from door to door offering piano lessons, finally saved enough money to return to the U.S. in 1961. Deciding "to get myself out of the clutches of life for a while," he immersed himself in the "Alkanian labyrinths...
Nonteaching volunteers wind up as beekeepers in Cameroon, accountants in Afghanistan, architects in Tunisia, fish hatchers in Togo. Two dozen men and women volunteers live in some of the world's most scabrous slums, the hillside favelas outside Rio de Janeiro, where they run medical clinics, teach and do social work. This month, when torrential rains and landslides claimed some 200 favelados' lives in Rio, the Corpsmen helped evacuate stricken families, set up emergency health stations, staffed mass vaccination centers...
...Middle East Airlines, the winning bidder would also sell jets to such smaller carriers as United Arab and Kuwait Airways. Besides, 20-year-old Middle East Airlines itself has become increasingly competitive, now flies from Beirut to Bombay, Zurich and Copenhagen, plans to go soon to Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro to serve a million Lebanese emigres in Latin America...
...seven humid, wakeful nights, the crash of thunder and flash of lightning had kept the cariocas awake, and the superstitious among them wondered if the gods of darkness had decided to unloose their wrath. Apparently they had. Abruptly the skies opened over Rio, and in four days torrential rains dumped nearly two feet of water on the city. Declared Guanabara (Rio) Governor Francisco Negrāo de Lima: "This was not a rain; it was a Biblical deluge...
Hurt worst were the favelas, the shantytowns that house one-quarter of Rio's 4,000,000 inhabitants. Many of the favelas cling precariously to steep hills. As the rains loosened the soil, the shacks slid dizzily down. Many favela dwellers escaped; others failed to get out soon enough. Slum dwellers in the low-lying northern suburb fared little better: the entire area was flooded...