Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign journalists in Santiago, Eisendrath had a unique story to tell but almost no way to tell it. Rio Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch, having hurried from Brazil to Buenos Aires to be closer to events, tried to phone Eisendrath for two days with no luck. "My principal worry," Rauch said, "was that the extraordinarily tight control imposed on communications by the military junta might keep TIME'S exclusive too exclusive." Adding to that worry were the controls imposed on telephone conversations: "Calls have been limited to three minutes, and are a particularly exquisite form of torture: the three minutes...
BACK IN THE Forties one of the most popular and successful creations in the film world was the "road" movie. In these films Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour thrilled movie audiences with reel after reel of celluloid adventures and misadventures. Such cinematic tidbits as The Road to Rio and The Road to Hong Kong, along with a raft of "roads" to other exotic and far-away places, saturated the movie market with innocent and plotless travelogues...
...Airport. The control tower at Orly alerted all rescue units and prepared for an emergency landing by the crippled craft. The alert was in vain. Only a minute and a half before its scheduled landing, the Brazilian Varig Airlines 707, which had flown from Sāo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, crash-landed in an onion field 2½ miles from the airport...
Autobol got rolling when a four-team league was organized by Orthopedist Mario Tourinho in Rio de Janeiro eight months ago. Drawing as many as 15,000 fans to their twice-monthly games, the teams square off with up to five drivers on a side (the number varies depending on the size of the field). Once the ball, a hood-high wad of hard rubber and canvas stuffed into a buffalo-hide covering, is put into play, virtually anything goes-up to and including head-on collisions. One of the few prohibitions is cutting directly in front of another driver...
Punctilious Protocol. Rogers had an even more awkward time in Rio de Janeiro. There he waited for three days before flying to the capital of Brasilia for an official welcome. The reason: his counterpart, Foreign Minister Mário Gibson Barbosa, along with President Emílio Médici and the rest of Brazil's top officialdom, was away on a visit to Portugal. Protocol dictated that Rogers could not see anyone-or leave Rio -until Barbosa returned. He could easily have arranged either to stay at home or to fly back to Rio...