Word: avenida
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...ever there was a popular revolution, it was the one that last week toppled Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart. In São Paulo, samba dancers whirled through the streets, singing, shouting and kicking. In Rio, some 300,000 cariocas pranced and danced along the Avenida Presidente Vargas beneath a storm of confetti, tootling carnival horns, waving handkerchiefs, clapping every back within reach. At a Copacabana restaurant, three tired, rain-drenched college boys tramped in off the street, plopped down at a table and lovingly draped a damp green, blue and yellow Brazilian flag over the fourth chair...
...even carried a reassuring sign: "We play touch football." Above the shouts came the wild music of 300 Mariachi bands-along with the tootles of a platoon of organ grinders lined up at one intersection cranking out their own hurdy-gurdy serenade. As the presidential procession headed toward the Avenida de la Reforma, 10,000 troops presented arms, and rows of firemen snapped to salute with brass shovels. At historic Zocalo Square, the bells of the 16th century cathedral pealed a clarion welcome. And then came the confetti. 16 tons of the stuff, in a blizzard never before seen...
...almost two miles on both sides of Avenida Revolución, Tijuana's main drag, bright yellow, white, red, blue and green neon signs festoon the dirty façades of grubby joints. In front of each stands a swarthy doorman, generally wearing baggy dark pants and a soiled red coat with heavily padded shoulders. To passing wolf packs of mufti-clad U.S. marines and sailors, he calls in an inviting voice: "Hey, Meester! Want to see nice French movies? Nice exhibition? You want nice girls?" "Take It off" The "good time" joints feature underlighted interiors, watered rum, tequila...
...Kennedys on a 25-mile drive from Maiquetia Airport through Caracas to La Carlota airport, where helicopters took the party to an Alliance for Progress ceremony in a Venezuelan village. Between the airports, the crowds were small but well-behaved. In Caracas itself, the motorcade rolled unmolested down Avenida Sucre, where Nixon's limousine had been stopped, stoned and spat upon...
...Embassy. The mob, 20,000 strong, surged from downtown Lisbon up the broad, tree-lined Avenida da Liberdades, and hove to in front of the U.S. embassy right on schedule at 6:30 p.m., while there was still just enough light for the assembled cameras. Led on by loudspeaker trucks, the rioters screamed, "Down with America!" "Down with the U.N.!" and "Leave Angola to us!" They flaunted all manner of banners, which someone had conveniently supplied, demanding that the U.S. "Liberate Hungary First," "Get Out of Alaska," and "Remember Little Rock." Someone had also brought along rocks enough to smash...