Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Love's long leap can be confusing, too. One playboy is said to have phoned a young friend in Rio to invite her over for a weekend, neglecting to say where he was calling from. She blew into his Paris apartment half a day later, only to find that her host was in Rome. No matter. She hopped another jet, was in Rome in two hours...
...familiar frenzy. Work came to a standstill; every radio and TV set was tuned to the broadcast. In Brasilia President Joao Goulart canceled all appointments and camped by his radio; congressional committees recessed; Alliance for Progress meetings in Sao Paulo were scheduled around game time. And in Rio 150,000 passionate souls, every man jack of them willing to part with his last cruzeiro, squeezed into Maracana Stadium for the games. Games? It was more like a Latin American madness...
...Rio's Copacabana beach, groups of boys and men, using heads, shoulders, bodies, legs and feet, keep a soccer ball in the air for minutes...
Outrage & Loss. Newspapers had their greatest impact beyond television's reach, and there they brought the message home as no transitory broadcast could ever do. In Munich, crowds waiting impatiently for the first editions broke into scuffles when the supply proved inadequate; in Rio, beleaguered news vendors called for police protection. Dailies in South Korea's capital, Seoul, were trapped by a time differential, worked all night with skeleton staffs to publish extras at dawn...
...members, who together helped elect rectors and choose professors, sat in on administrative matters, and generally played revolutionary politics all year long. In 1943, Ibero-American University, a private school closely linked to the Roman Catholic Church, was founded in Mexico. Others followed: Brazil's Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and Ecuador's Catholic University in Quito, both in 1946; and Venezuela's Andrés Bello...