Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...String? It started out on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro (see color pages opposite). Brazil's puritanical military regime had prosecuted a girl from Ipanema who went topless, and then permanently prohibited mammary nudity. Undaunted, the girls of Rio invented the String-known in Brazil as the Tonga-which is derived from an ancient Indian loincloth and consists of two minuscule triangles of cloth joined by a cord over either hip. The Tanga is a huge hit with Rio girl watchers because it bares a large part of the derriere-Brazilian males tend to be nádega...
...owner of a Madison Avenue boutique who has his Strings made at his factory in Italy, sold 160 in two days. "I've had calls from all over for them from men-boy friends and husbands," he says. His suits cost from $35 to $40-v. $6 in Rio-and come in a variety of materials, including cotton and jersey, which Paterno favors "because the suit must be close to the body and you need soft fabric for that. Cotton doesn't give that close look...
Will the American male take to nádega gazing? "No question," says Paterno. American girls should also enjoy the minibikini's cheeky look. A 28-year-old Canadian woman teaching English in Rio says, "The Tanga reminds us of a G string, and what woman hasn't at some time wished she could wear a G string?" Says a strung-up Ipanema lovely: "It's bacana [right-on]. It's more bacana than a traditional bikini if you have the right body." Most of the girls from Ipanema have the right bodies...
Died. Eurico Caspar Dutra, 89, conservative, taciturn President of Brazil from 1946 to 1951; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Pre-eminently a soldier, Dutra rose through military ranks to become war minister to Strongman Getulio Vargas in 1936, belatedly latched onto the Allied wartime cause after years of vocal admiration for the Nazi forces, and was swept into the presidency following Vargas' ouster in 1945. Among the highlights of his honest, non-dictatorial but uninspired administration were the outlawing of the Communist Party and of casino gambling, at the time Brazil's most lucrative industry...
...secret police to stand in for the Emperor at various ceremonial and public functions, was eventually smuggled onto St. Helena in 1818 and substituted for the exiled Napoleon as a British prisoner. According to Wheeler, Robeaud soon died of arsenic poisoning. The real Napoleon secretly sailed to Rio de Janeiro and eventually returned to Europe, where he lived as a diamond merchant in Verona...