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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...
...magazine's history, Alfred Eisenstaedt helped establish a new art form: the photo essay. Those essays are now acknowledged as masterpieces of their genre: W. Eugene Smith's study of life and death in a Spanish village, Gordon Parks' unflinching closeups of a slum family in Rio de Janeiro, Leonard McCombe's portrait of the career girl...
Violence in the name of the game of soccer is a worldwide phenomenon, hardly unique to Israel. Altercations are so common that in Bulgaria, for instance, a judge set up his court on the sidelines to prosecute offenders on the spot, while in Rio de Janeiro one team requested that the moat built round their field be stocked with piranhas. In Israel the Union of Referees has decided on a more practical tactic. Last April, after a record total of 42 referees were injured in 175 riots and fights during the season, the union went on strike. "Soccer fields have...
...accept him. As that word was passed, Meyer Lansky, 70, the former Miami gambling king who was ejected from Israel after a two-year stay, took off on a two-day intercontinental odyssey in search of a home. After changing planes in Zurich, he boarded an overnight flight to Rio de Janeiro. But would Brazil let him stay? It did not even let him out of the airport. Neither did Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru or Panama. Inexorably, Lansky's airliner continued its flight to Miami, and there two waiting FBI agents arrested the old man for gambling, tax evasion...