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 15ยข 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...