Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even seeing what they buy. Others overlook restrictive covenants, tax liens and hair-raising warnings in the property reports that large developers must file with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Horizon Corp., the largest subdivider in New Mexico, is supplying future residents of its 150,000-acre Rio communities with neither water nor sewage systems. Southwest Land Corp. is developing Santa California City, N. Mex., without selling new owners the mineral rights to their land; other people, who bought the rights earlier, can dig up the yards at any time for silver, coal, or even gravel. Other items...
...also budgeted $7 billion over the next three years for public works, notably the Transamazonian Highway, part of a 9,000-mile network that aims to open up the largely uninhabited interior. In the hardscrabble northeast, it is about to pour in $800 million to help attract industry. Rio's favelas, the infamous slums that once contained 950,000 of the city's residents, now house about 450,000; the last favela is scheduled for demolition within the next five years, and the favelados are being moved to cheap government-built housing far from the center of town...
...Year's Eve, the white-clad throngs gather on Brazil's beaches after dark, more than a million people in Rio alone. They bear worldly offerings-lipstick, combs, jewelry, perfume, mirrors, flowers-to give to a vain, beauteous sea goddess. Called lemanjá, she is one of the pantheon worshiped by the various devotees of the pagan cults known as Umbanda, Quimbanda, Candomble, or-to its detractors-as Macumba...
Ferree puts affluence's refuse to remarkable purpose. Four times weekly he climbs into a worn old bus and distributes these goods to the Mexican migrant workers who live in brutalizing squalor on both sides of the Rio Grande. But that only begins his chores. After persistent dunning, drug companies have shipped tons of vitamins and medicines to Harlingen, and Ferree dispenses them in the Mexican towns of Reynosa and Matamoros, where he has established makeshift clinics in abandoned shacks. He ministers to minor ailments himself; with the help of admiring merchants on both sides of the border...
...this should put Rio far ahead of Nashville, Tenn., where a three-story vertical mausoleum with a capacity of 9,000 bodies is slowly rising at Woodlawn Memorial Park. "We're just coming out of the ground with the second story now," reports Owner H. Raymond Ligon, "and if sales continue to go as well as at present, we'll keep on building...