Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plane traffic in and out of Brasília was so heavy that the country's four major airlines set up temporary counters in the lobby of the Congress building, and as a gag Deputies went around greeting each other, "Hello, Mr. Minister." Goulart himself flew off to Rio for two days to confer with army generals and politicians...
...childhood in tough old Chicago [May 31] you're making a liar out of me to my wife. "Swede" Algren and I were close friends from the time we were 13 until after college, including a memorable Depression summer when we hitchhiked down to the lower Rio Grande valley in Texas...
...When it is completed, Honduras will have more power than it can use in the immediate future. Neighboring El Salvador, the driest country in Central America, needs power for its growing textile, food-processing and shoe industries. The plan is to build a $3,000,000 transmission line from Rio Lindo to El Salvador's capital city of San Salvador -thus giving the Salvadorans electricity and the Hondurans the paying customers they need for further development...
...second straight Grand Prix title. > Brazil's basketball team: the world championship, for the second time in a row, with an 85-81 victory over the U.S. in the final game of the seven-nation round-robin tournament. Playing before a wildly partisan crowd of 22,000 in Rio de Janeiro, the undefeated (6-0) Brazilians broke a 39-39 tie at the start of the second half, had no trouble staying in front when six U.S. players fouled out. Yugoslavia upset the Soviet Union 69-67, to take second place. The thrice-beaten Americans wound up fourth...
Votes & Excuses. Where poverty and underemployment are everyday realities and privilege is taken for granted, self-seeking politicians underwrite featherbedding to win votes from powerful unions, and then seek out economists to provide scholarly excuses. Says Brazil's Juvenal Osório Gomes, a government economist: "Only a violently capitalistic regime without any social sentiment would threaten workers with the abject misery of having to look for a job and not finding it. Brazil is not violently capitalistic and never will...