Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dynamite & Gas. Now that rabies is common among vampires, their bloodletting often brings agonizing death. In Trinidad 89 humans have died of bat rabies since 1935. Other countries also list human victims, but the principal damage is done to cattle. In the single Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, vampires killed 50,000 cattle...
...months ago with Brazil's metals-rich Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, Linda lost a jade earring. Sympathetically, the 41-year-old Baby suggested a trip to Hong Kong for a replacement, and off they flew. When their shopping was done, they decided to go on around the world to Rio. Linda collected a few baubles along the way-including a $4,000 diamond "engagement ring...
Before the wedding, Linda made a quick trip home to Mexico from Rio. As soon as her plane was out of sight, Baby called in the press and, reported the Brazil Herald,'"told reporters that his affair with Linda Christian was definitely at an end." Later, Baby put his position more bluntly. "I made no promises," he said. "I just said we were engaged so I could get her into the same hotel suites with me." Linda dashed back, spent several days chasing Baby by phone, then made a face-saving retreat to a film festival at Uruguay...
...luncheon date with Baby. But instead of keeping the date Baby threw a special kind of going-away party. At 2 p.m. a dozen hooting taxis began circling Linda's hotel. From each flapped a banner bearing the legend, "Go Home Linda." Tooting trumpets, 30 recruits from Rio's slums marched up waving more "Linda Go Home" signs. Then, from the windows of Baby's suite in an adjoining hotel came a hail of firecrackers and a 20-ft. banner. The message was the same: LINDA GO HOME...
...most influential Communist in the Western Hemisphere, Brazil's Luis Carlos Prestes, last week won the right to reappear in public. A Rio judge struck down a warrant for Prestes' "preventive" arrest, which has kept him underground for ten years. This week Prestes is supposed to come out of hiding and sign the judge's terms for his conditional freedom (e.g., he must report twice a month) while he awaits trial-months hence, if ever-on charges of sedition...