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THAT MAN FROM RIO. In a hilarious parody of Hollywood adventure movies, French Director Philippe de Broca fires cliches at the screen like soggy old lemons, with Hero Jean-Paul Belmondo panting through many a tight squeeze...
...Rio de Janeiro's parking problem is about as acute as New York's might be if everybody drove to work. Since there are no parking lots, garages or meters, and since Rio traffic cops have always regarded parked cars with compassion, Rio motorists park anywhere. They double park and triple park; they park on sidewalks, in crosswalks, at intersections, on center islands. Every place but on top of another car. Now Brazil's revolutionaries are taking the matter in hand-the stern hand of Air Force Colonel Americo Fontenele, 43, Rio's new traffic director...
...delightful walkthrough exhibit, Coke turns up in the darndest places: hidden in a Hong Kong fish market, along the Taj Mahal's jasmine-scented promenade, tucked in a Bavarian snowbank, cooling in a Cambodian rain forest or gracing the captain's table on a cruise ship to Rio...
...Proceeds from the 1961 sales of sta tions KRGV and KRGV-TV in the Rio Grande Valley city of Weslaco...
Within an hour of the announcement, hundreds of people jammed the street outside Kubitschek's beach-front apartment in Rio. "He'll return! He'll return!" they chanted. In Kubitschek's apartment, supporters hoisted the ex-President to their shoulders and carried him to the window. Fans and foes alike rallied to Kubitschek's side. "Abusive, monstrous and violent measure," said Heraclito Sobral Pinto, president of the Brazilian Bar Association and longtime critic of Kubitschek. "The real loser," said Archbishop Dom Helder Camara, "was not Kubitschek but Brazil...