Word: sao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rise. Constantino de Castro Ribeiro was a clever and ambitious youth of 17 when he arrived in Brazil in 1920 from his native Portugal. He married a wealthy girl, opened a dry-goods store in Sao Paulo and soon expanded by adding a canning factory. Before long curious things began to happen...
...Olympics were still a year away -but the U.S. was already limbering up its muscles. At the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil, U.S. swimmers won 19 of 20 events, U.S. wrestlers swept eight of eight, U.S. weightlifters six of seven. Latin American track fans saw their first 16-ft. vault when Dave Tork soared over the crossbar at 16 ft. ¾ in. Balding Pete McArdle chopped 65.1 sec. off the Games record for 10,000 meters, and Broadjumper Ralph Boston leaped 26 ft. 7¼ in. Jaunty Jim Beatty, who had not lost a race in two years...
Even so, the stars of Sao Paulo had better look to their laurels. While junketing U.S. trackmen were shellacking their Latin neighbors, a band of talented homebodies put on quite a show of their own. In one brief weekend, four world records tumbled...
Harvard junior Bob Lea teamed up with Bill Knecht from Haddenfield, N.J., to win a gold medal in double sculls for the United States in the Pan-American games Sunday, in Sao Paulo, Brabil. Lea, when he's not off in Brazil, lives in Eliot House, but does not row for the Harvard varsity crews...
...central concentration of Japanese industry is in Brazil, to which sizable numbers of Japanese farmers have been emigrating since 1908, notably to Sao Paulo. The Japanese in Brazil control 67 firms ranging into insurance, banking, cement, glass and machinery. The Japanese-run Ishikawajima shipyard is working on its seventh vessel, and the new Usiminas steel plant, backed by a consortium of 14 Japanese companies, will pour 500,000 tons of pig iron this year. In Peru the Japanese have become leaders in the booming fish-meal industry, are also building a railroad in the backlands. In Honduras, Japan...