Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impact of these imaginings was widespread. In Rio de Janeiro, a group of architects, including Oscar Niemeyer, designed the Brazilian ministry of Education and Health (1939-1943), incorporating Le Corbusier's ideas -- stilts, sun-breakers, roof-garden, cubist design of windows and balconies. Niemeyer's plans for Brasilia also show the impact of Le Corbusier...
...swap negotiated by New York Lawyer (and unsuccessful 1962 Democratic nominee for the Senate) James B. Donovan, the U.S. gave up four Castro thugs. Three had been caught in a plot to start tossing sabotage bombs around New York. The fourth, Francisco ("The Hook") Molina del Rio, 31, was the one the U.S. most disliked to let go. A pro-Castro gunman, he got into a shooting melee with anti-Castro Cubans in a New York restaurant during Castro's visit to the U.S. in 1960. In the process, he inadvertently killed a nine-year-old Venezuelan girl, Magdalena...
...tell it, many U.S. railroads would-and do. The ICC, at the urging of Midwestern roads, is knuckle-rapping some lines for holding onto boxcars from other lines for their own use. It has filed twelve suits against railroads and has five more upcoming, has already fined the Denver & Rio Grande for 14 violations. "Everybody's crying for boxcars," says Homer Wilson, superintendent of transportation for the Illinois Central...
...Himself. Last week, 150.000 screaming fans jammed Rio de Janeiro's cavernous Maracana Stadium to watch Pele's team, the Santos Futebol Clube champions of Brazil, defend their national title against Rio's hard-running Botafogo club. It was no contest. The lithe, handsome Pelé had the day to himself, stealing the ball, caroming pinpoint passes off the top of his head, foot-dribbling around Botafogo defenders as if they were rooted in concrete. Santos ran up a quick three-goal lead. Then, while delirious fans shouted "Pay-lay! Pay-lay!". Pelé personally administered...
...Paris, Rome-were underbuilt, and though the hotel service is often better than in the U.S., the furnishings are often shabby and the bills padded by extra service charges and taxes. Opening in June, the 400-room Cavalieri Hilton, stretching across Rome's highest hill, Monte Mário, will be the city's first new de luxe hotel in 20 years. Hilton is negotiating for a hotel site at Orly airport outside Paris, and another near the Eiffel Tower...