Word: maracana
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...piped the loudspeakers of Rio's Little Maracana sport stadium one evening last week. From overhead, a glittering crystal Sputnik twirled down, antennas spinning, lights blinking. Spotlights glared as it landed, picked out a sequin-spangled man and woman dangling from it. The couple waved, the crowd applauded, and a troupe of animal trainers, tumblers, clowns and acrobats raced into the arena to applaud back. As the Sputnik beeped back into orbit among the rafters, the famed Moscow circus cut loose with its spectacular show for the first time in the Western Hemisphere...
...open it by hand, and record the choices. There was a lot of recording to do: up for election were all 327 House of Deputies seats, two-thirds of the 60 Senate's seats, eleven out of 20 state governorships, and many lesser offices. In Rio's Maracana Stadium last week, 60 groups of election clerks counted away amid milling onlookers, nervous candidates, Coca-Cola vendors and party observers keeping a partisan eye on the counting. Now and then election officials brought in new canvas sacks full of ballots from guarded, iron-barred storerooms...