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...Paulo's influential Jornal da Tarde declared such a mass arrest of benefit only to those "who fight to install a totalitarian regime in the country." In Rio, 200 students invaded the Education Ministry offices on Flamengo Beach. They grabbed books and pieces of scenery belonging to the National Theater Conservatory and heaved the lot out of office windows. They blocked traffic and collected tolls on an ad jacent expressway. In Fortaleza, police broke up student demonstrations with what they called "family-size" nightsticks. In São Paulo, the students' midnight skulkers sprayed "UNE" in paint...
...attracted the attention of Le Corbusier, co-architect of the revolutionary Ministry of Education building. Roberto landscaped its gardens with all-Brazilian plants, flowers and grasses. Subsequently he laid out the gardens for most of the major parks in Brazil. The "Monumental Axis" in Brasilia and the immense Flamengo waterfront in Rio are alike adorned with the extravagant splendor of rain-forest verdure-all manicured no more than is strictly necessary to conform to the severity of Roberto's designs...
Sweaty Santas. Though the U.S. has made the Christmas pageant what it is today, other countries have recognized a good thing when they see it. Two weeks ago, some 100,000 mothers and children crowded into Rio de Janeiro's Flamengo Park and watched a helicopter approach. Everyone burst into a frenzied shout when it finally touched down and disgorged a befurred Santa Claus, sweating gamely in the 90° heat...
Brazilians take to initials at least partly out of necessity. They are a people with notoriously long, complicated names. Initials and short, catchy nicknames are supposed to simplify it all. Two of Rio's top soccer teams, Flamengo and Fluminense, are known merely...
Back home, the Hungarian Soccer Federation pulled out the rule book, and the International Soccer Federation backed it up. Honved's tour, warned the world group, was illegal, and any team playing them would be subject to fine or suspension. Flamengo went ahead anyway, but the reaction elsewhere was not so brave. Several other Brazilian teams refused to play, and from soccer federations in Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Peru and the U.S. came word that no matches with Honved would be authorized. Though still dickering last week for two Flamengo-Honved games in Venezuela, the Hungarians were rapidly running...