Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...residents of Rio de Janeiro are enormously fond of their splendid Copacabana beach. So are the 25,000 dogs that live in the area and litter it with some 21 tons of excrement a day. After pondering the complaints of barefoot beach strollers, Copacabana officials offered a solution of sorts: a series of installations named the "Pipi...
...legends of Eastern Europe, the vampire took many horrendous forms, but south of the Rio Grande vampiro means just one thing: a tiny bat that sucks the blood of humans and animals and carries rabies, the deadliest of infectious diseases. Despite its minuscule proportions-an adult may weigh as little as one-half ounce and seldom more than 1½ ounces-the common vampire has made it economically impractical to raise cattle or horses in large areas from central Mexico to central Argentina. Efforts to destroy Desmodus rotundus by such crude methods as dynamiting or using flamethrowers in his cave...
Impressed with the Garibaldi resort's $5,000-a-month profit, the Brazilian government is lending Santini more than $2 million to build similar complexes near Rio, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Recife and Brasilia. Making money, though, was not on Santini's mind when he began his quixotic quest to put Brazilians on skis. "My real ambition," he says, "is to see a Brazilian ski team in the Olympics-even if they finish last...
...world's most successful innkeeper is frenetic business. That was the first fact learned by Correspondents Alan Anderson and John Tompkins as they followed Kemmons Wilson, board chairman of Holiday Inns, across two continents to gather material for this week's cover story. Anderson, based in our Rio de Janeiro bureau, accompanied Wilson on a swing through Brazil in search of new motel sites. Beginning as early as 4 a.m., Wilson, with Anderson in tow, visited with local officials, toured local marketplaces and even traveled the Amazon. "I had been warned about his pace," says Anderson...
...scent of the devil is in the air, said the vicar of Miguel Pereira, as more than 100 women from all over Brazil gathered last week in this scenic, peaceful mountain town northwest of Rio de Janeiro. A smirking TV crew crowded into the local beauty shop, where business was booming. "No reason to get concerned over this conference," jeered a Miguel Pereira attorney. "It's mostly for women to give vent to their vanity." Sniffed a local garbage man: "If they want equality, let them collect garbage...