Anything Goes

Deputy Edmundo Barreto Pinto will do anything for a laugh. Last week, as usual, he had Rio in stitches.

For crack, French-born Photographer Jean Manzon, Barreto Pinto had posed in shorts, mugged in the bathtub, pranced weirdly on the beach. When the pictures were printed in the weekly O Cruzeiro, they were a sensation; copies of the 15-c- magazine sold for $1.

Fellow Congressmen raged. Abashed for once in his life, Barreto Pinto took refuge in a libel suit, charged that Photographer Manzon had used montage tricks, had promised to snap him only from the waist up. As Barreto Pinto's own Labor Party prepared to expel him if he lost his case, he beat them to the punch by resigning.

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