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Later, he would become U.S. ambassador to Brazil. But as an undergraduate, Gordon spent his time with the Glee Club. It was the tail end of Prohibition, so Gordon explains the Glee Club’s parties usually featured just wine, not hard liquor. “People wouldn’t get raucously drunk,” he says, “but they’d get comfortable. They would definitely sing dirtier songs than normal...
...each, nearly triple the normal price. When they were gone, Overstreet began contacting foreign bottlers to import the drink, which has not yet been replaced by new Coke abroad. His search took him from England ("It didn't taste right") to Mexico, Puerto Rico and finally Brazil. On the day Coca-Cola disclosed that it was reviving the old beverage, a Rio bottler was about to ship Overstreet 300 cases of Brazilian Coke, the first of up to 10,000 cases. In a mild panic, the California merchant hastily canceled the deal...
Well, it may no longer be a joke. The killer bees, imported from Africa to Brazil for research, escaped in 1957, and their offspring began advancing slowly northward. Last week a killer colony was confirmed for the first time on American soil, in an oil field some 60 miles from Bakersfield, Calif. The bees are believed to have hitched a ride north on drilling equipment shipped from Latin America. The killers are no more venomous than domestic bees, but they are easily provoked and attack in great numbers. They were first reported in California by an oil-field worker...
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Spider Woman was filmed in Brazil (in English), directed by the Argentine-born Hector Babenco from a script by the American Leonard Schrader and a novel by the Argentine Manuel Puig. This time the artistic melting pot bubbled to perfection. The film's gaudily stylized performances (notably Hurt's, which has grandeur about it), all its tonalities, both visual and verbal, are pitched one notch above the naturalistic. Thus Babenco may subtly explore issues, both political and psychological, that are usually dulled by moviemakers' earnestness and self-importance. Full of sudden startlements and twists, the film is delighted...