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...idyllic as the pop hit of the postwar 1940s made it out to be. Until last week, Nicaragua's capital (pop. 400,000) was a city of sharp contrasts: of wood and tin shacks in the crowded downtown slums, of office towers and modern middle-class apartments along Avenida Central, of sprawling homes and haciendas owned by the rich atop the low volcanic hills on the city's outskirts. As Christmas 1972 approached, the main preoccupation of the city's relaxed, resilient and notably hospitable people was the 20th Amateur Baseball World Series, in which the local...
Suddenly the peaceful demonstration turned into a brawl. Swarming out from a side street, a battalion of young hoods of the extremist Movement of the Revolutionary Left charged the demonstrators along the broad Avenida Providencia. As the leftists began throwing rocks, right-wing youths wearing hard hats entered the fray swinging wooden clubs. When shield-carrying carabineros finally moved in, they unaccountably aimed most of their tear gas and water cannon at the women. Scrambling in retreat, the marchers shouted "Assassins! Assassins...
CUERNAVACA, April 30-From the vantage point of the Americans who gather daily for coffee and gossip at the Vienna and its two sister cafes lining Avenida Guerrero opposite the town square, little has happened to distinguish the last few months in Mexico from any others. "Coronel" Sanlers has made his debut treating Cuernavaca to Real Kentucky Fried Chicken at his new concession snuggled between Burger Boy and the snappy Cafe Universal, the weather has grown hotter and the Easter Weck crowds have come and gone. None of these things are surprising. American cultural expansion, hot weather and the passing...
...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...
Stand-by Alert. On the surface, it hardly seems to matter. Along Avenida Rio Branco in Rio de Janeiro large stylized figures decorate the curbs, bird cages in their outstretched hands. Huge, brightly colored sunflowers float above the traffic amid a profusion of plastic hummingbirds, cardinals and canaries. "Mother's Heart," an outsized paddy wagon so named "because there is always room for one more," is on standby alert-although the cops will haul away only the rowdiest of cariocas...