Word: rio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took nearly two months for Munoz to cover the 1,200 miles from Yucatan to Matamoros, just across the Rio Grande from the southern tip of Texas. There, he telephoned his sister Elvia, 19, a senior at Harlingen High School, and Elvia called her mother, Mrs. Ovidea Munoz, 53, a cleaning woman with six children. Mrs. Munoz snatched up Amando's baptismal certificate, got a ride in a friend's old car, and barreled off to the border to retrieve her son. "Don't cry, Mama, I'm back," said Amando. "Let me cry," said...
...Dutch timber tycoon, it began when he set his first sail at age five. Now, at 73, Bruynzeel still has an acute case of sea fever. But it is tempered by a serious heart condition. Nonetheless, he was determined to enter this year's prestigious Capetown-to-Rio yacht race if it killed him. The 3,500-mile ocean grind might do exactly that, Bruynzeel's doctors warned; they ordered him to remain on the dock. He refused, explaining that a bracing sea voyage "is better for my health than sitting around thinking about...
...hoped that the first of the 39 boats entered in the race would arrive last week and receive a grand welcome from the 200,000 or more sunbathers who crowd Rio's Ipanema and Copacabana beaches on Sunday afternoons. Instead, 100 late diners at the Rio de Janeiro Yacht Club were startled when the first boat arrived at the yacht-club dock unannounced shortly before midnight Saturday with a new record time of 21 days 12 hr. Even more remarkable was the fact that the winner was Stormy, piloted across the finish line...
Nova Friburgo is a three hours' drive northwest of Rio, well into the mountains. The town's population is around 100,000, and most people work for the tourists. There are 150 Mobral centers there. Two teachers we spoke to claimed 90% of their students actually pass the final test-about double the national average...
...short book, Arlene Croce, editor of Ballet Review and freelance critic, has traced in meticulous detail the happenstance that brought about the partnership and produced that wondrous series of nine Astaire-Rogers movies in only three years, 1934-36. Among them: Top Hat, The Gay Divorcee, Flying Down to Rio. Astaire was 34 when the series began, and distinctly the lesser half of the famed Broadway act he made up with his sister Adele, who had abruptly quit her career to marry an English lord. Twelve years younger, Ginger was a knockabout ingénue with a track record...