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...scandal involves a high-society prostitution ring that catered to the top echelon of Lisbon's social, business and political set. Operating almost under Salazar's nose, the girls worked out of a seemingly innocent dress shop on Lisbon's chic Avenida Roma. Many of them were teen-agers and even younger, and, according to Portuguese officials, they performed for their clients most of the tricks and perversions known to pornographic literature...
Since the 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...
...worked pretty hard here at Punta, with sleep averaging out at around five hours a night. But there seemed to come a time about 11 p.m. when summiteers found time to dine, and so did we. Last night 1 looked around our table in a restaurant on the Avenida Gorlero and admired our small crew-it was nice company...
Wall Street's tremors reverberated last week through Rome's Via Parigi, Rio's Avenida Rio Branco and Hong Kong's Queen's Road Central. With tens of thousands of non-American investors holding stakes in the U.S. stock market, foreign trading on the New York Stock Exchange rose from $5.8 billion in 1961 to $7.8 billion last year, when it accounted for more than 5% of all Big Board transactions. One reason for the market's weakness is that the foreigners have been selling. Last year they sold $409 million more than they...
...outskirts of the city, Dodge Darts are rolling out of a vast factory complex that less than a year ago was an empty field. Europe's biggest supermarket opened two years ago on the exclusive Calle Velázquez. In a dim, dark-paneled bar on the Avenida de las Americas, boys in long hair and girls in white Vartan stockings sit carefully cool and immobile as a yé-yé band blasts out a yeah-yeah beat...