Word: copacabana
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...actress (Pete Kelly's Blues), ardent fans (ranging from Duke Ellington to Rudolf Nureyev), and top nightclub engagements at $25,000 a week. They have also brought her serious illness and four divorces. But last week, as she finished a three-week stand at Manhattan's Copacabana, she wore it all with a light, insouciant snap of the fingers and a knowing smile. And her performance was, as always, socko...
...Hope Baptist Church of Newark, N.J. She has been spreading the faith ever since. During a recent tour of the East Coast, she attended services at the New Hope church, then drove her Mercedes into Manhattan to conduct her own kind of revival meeting at the Copacabana. Her songbook is a primer course in variety and good taste. Tall and wickedly curvy in a snug, deep-dish gown, she swoops down into gutsy little growls for Walk On By, soars up into high, hallelujah quavers for What the World Needs Now Is Love...
...abraco to an old army chum and cracked two of the officer's ribs. He is just as good at cracking knuckles. When, as commander of the military, he finally accepted the dinner invitation of a particularly insistent congressional deputy, he arrived at an opulent apartment on Copacabana beach, watched silently after dinner while his host showed off a gallery of possessions: 50 suits, 25 pairs of shoes, bulky silverware, art treasures. "Wait till you see my wife's wardrobe," said the deputy. "No thank you," replied Costa, "I have seen enough." Within the next few days...
...SUDENE, is luring new industry with special tax incentives and is helping build a $37 million potassium-fertilizer factory, a $44 million caustic-soda plant and an $11 million tire plant. Brazil is building the new $25 million, 15-story Panorama Palace Hotel on a Rio hill side overlooking Copacabana Beach; it will be Latin America's largest and lushest hotel. The massive 4,000,000-kw. Urubupunga Project going up on the Parana River in south-central Brazil, one of the largest hydroelectric complexes in the world, is part of a program to push Brazil's hydroelectric...
...Cabaret's world. "I've been there," he says. Son of a successful vaudevillian named Mickey Katz, Joel clicked with a cabaret routine while still in high school in California. In his teens he was a headliner at such high-priced playrooms as New York's Copacabana, Miami's Fontainebleau, Hollywood's Mocambo, and the London Palladium. "At that time," he recalls, "I would do almost anything to find a niche for myself. I had a bleeding ulcer at 20, and my life was falling apart...