Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Opiniño, a liberal magazine that has frequently been critical of the military rulers. Censors have also been assigned to monitor the operations of newspapers that dared to defy the government's ban on speculation about the presidential succession. Considering the fact that nubile maidens on Rio's beaches regularly display almost as much epidermis as do Penthouse pets, many Brazilians thought the campaign against girlie magazines a bit quixotic. What was the purpose? an inquisitive reporter asked a police spokesman. His straight-faced answer: "The artistic nude is going to be abolished...
...Janus Film Festival. Harvard Square's festival of eminent films including Jean Renoir's best (Rules of the Game) and Sergei Eisenstein's last (Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel takes place in a German cabaret between the wars. It was Marlene Dietrich...
...Project Rio Blanco, as the May blast is called, is actually the third in a series of "nuclear wells." It follows the 1967 Project Gasbuggy, a 26-kiloton explosion in New Mexico, and the 40-kiloton Project Rulison in Colorado in 1969. The AEC has claimed that both of these previous tests were successful, since they proved the feasibility of nuclear drilling...
...that Rulison was worth the effort; it was an experiment conducted to refine the technique of nuclear drilling. As for radioactivity levels in the gas, the AEC says that improvements in bomb design will minimize the problem in future blasts. Those improvements would presumably be incorporated into both the Rio Blanco devices and Project Wagon Wheel, a five-bomb, 500-kiloton underground explosion scheduled...
While TIME correspondents in Italy dug for proof of Castaneda's residence some 20 years ago in Milan, reporters in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro sought to trace his early years in South America. Correspondent Bernard Diederich visited known witchcraft centers in rural Mexico in search of Don Juan, and Sandra Burton herself traveled south of the border seeking the shaman. In New York, Reporter-Researcher Patricia Beckert interviewed Castaneda's friends and fellow anthropologists...