Word: rio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sell desert plots to about 45,000 people for a total of more than $200 million. AMREP's initial investment for the parched land was about $17.8 million. To hype the value of the property, the indictment charges, the company added some showcase improvements in a development called Rio Rancho, which is in fact only a small part of AMREP's 96,000-acre Rio Rancho subdivision. Most of the outlying lots -with no water, sewers or electricity and little chance of ever getting any -are too far away to benefit from the construction of the core community...
...Jimmy's and Le Regine. In Monte Carlo, the snob spots for drinking and dancing are the Maona (Tahitian), Para-dize (Brazilian) and New Jimmyz (art deco). The woman who manages all this, sometime Singer Regine (nee Zylberberg), 45, now plans new discothèques in Rio and Manhattan. "Life begins with the first cocktail," says the lady who introduced le twist to Paris. "She only sleeps three hours a night," adds her husband and former secretary, Roger Choukroun. The cabaret queen is also branching out into fashion design. Her first collection, introduced at a Paris ready-to-wear...
...hopes that the country will still be there when he gets up in the morning. The most popular rallying cry of last week's many demonstrations was one that was chanted by 40,000 Portuguese at a pro-government demonstration organized by Socialist Party Leader Mário Scares: "Discipline! Discipline! Discipline!" As yet. unfortunately, the Pinheiro de Azevedo regime has not shown that it can fulfill that mandate...
...made the sarong famous. "He'd sweep under the open windows where the executives met, listen in and pick up all the latest details." Lamour's old studio contact is long gone, but her co-stars in seven previous Road movies (including Road to Singapore, Rio and Zanzibar) remain. Some time next year, Bing Crosby, 71, Bob Hope, 72, and Lamour will reunite for their eighth cinematic trek, this one titled Road to Tomorrow. Crosby and Hope will portray two grandfathers who grow bored with life and set out for one last fling. And Lamour's role...
...Rio de Janeiro Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, the reporting for this week's story in the World section on the conference of Third World foreign ministers in Lima began like a routine assignment and ended like an episode from a comic opera. On his way from Rio to the Peruvian capital early last week, Hillenbrand stopped off for a half-day in Buenos Aires. The city, he found, was alive with talk of a coup against the government of Isabel Perón. Connecting with a flight that arrived at midnight-"All flights seem to arrive in Lima at midnight...