Word: atlantica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hearing, because as noise increases the ability to hear decreases. Experienced travelers to Rio book rooms in the back of the great hotels that line Copacabana Beach, forsaking the glorious views over the harbor in order to be as far as possible from the amplified autos snarling along Avenida Atlantica. Says Aimone Camardella, director of industrial physics at the National Institute of Technology: "Noise is increasing the number of neurotics in Rio, and the increased number of neurotics is increasing the noise level. It's a vicious cycle...
...days of Fiorello La Guardia, New York has seemed a fairly antiseptic town. No more. Oldtimers and out-of-town tourists alike are astonished this summer at the parade of prostitutes who have turned midtown Manhattan into a bawdwalk that compares with Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Atlantica or Rome's Via Veneto...