Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flying Down to Rio. At the Harkness Commons Dining Hall, Saturday...
...Brazil is not just thythm and poetry and exquisite color prints. You will walk through Rio de Janeiro, city beneath Sugarloaf Mountain, between Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, but also a city where, two blocks behind a luxury hotel begins a shanty town of 'favelas'" crowded on sewerless hillsides where plague lingers in the streets. Favelas that disgorge beggars who make rich tourists shiver and toss coins. Magic? Hardly...
Freewheeling Style. The story is much the same in Latin America. From Rio, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand cables that Carter's concern with human rights at first prompted the Chilean and Argentine regimes to grant dissenters a bit more leeway. But in the past week "Argentina barred those held under the state-of-siege regulations from leaving the country-an option they had before. In Chile, the official state of siege has been extended for six more months, and last week the Christian Democratic Party and three other political groups were outlawed...
Here, the number of kisses depends on where you are. In Rio, you kiss a person twice, once on each cheek. In the city of São Paulo, you kiss a person only once. But in the interior of São Paulo state, you kiss three times, alternating cheeks. The third kiss is for luck in marriage. This gets to be a problem when you leave a party and have to kiss 50 people goodbye...
...Rio de Janeiro