Barefoot Beauty Is Running for Office on Her Assets

--A political candidate has let her hair down in a “new approach” that has a campaign advertisement showing her barefoot and wearing an off-the-shoulder gown. Whether she will attract voters to the polls Tuesday remains to be seen, but Evelyn Arroyo is receiving a lot of attention. The ad shows Arroyo hugging her knees as she coyly looks at the camera above the slogan: “For a new approach, vote Evelyn Arroyo.” “People have said it was sexually immoral, but I guess it’s working,” said the 21-year-old child care worker and former beauty queen, who is running for a seat on the Hoboken, N. J., school board. “I don’t think it’s immoral. It’s just extremely good advertising. The politicians aren’t supporting me, so I figured the only way I could win was (to) use my natural assets. This advertisement certainly draws attention,” Arroyo said. The $300 quarter-page ad in the free, weekly Hudson Reporter has drawn criticism from some of Arroyo’s opponents. One of them, William Metcalf, called the ad “disgusting.” Another, Lourdes Arroyo, said she suspects an attempt to discredit her because their surnames are the same. They are not related. “No one’s pulling my string,” Evelyn Arroyo said. “I’m an independent.”

--Elizabeth Brinton, 14, of Falls Church, Va., will sell her first box of 1986 Girl Scout cookies to President Reagan in the Oval Office today. Last year, she became the most successful Girl Scout cookie vendor in history by selling 11,281 boxes, but her main goal had been to sell a box to the President. Since her record sales last year, she has been asked to speak at many company functions. Sandler Foods of Norfolk, Va., had her speak and in lieu of a speaker’s fee, she sold the company 250 boxes of cookies. Cookie season begins today, and Elizabeth’s goal is to sell 14,000 boxes.

--Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II plans to spend a four-day vacation on a Kentucky stud farm in May, Buckingham Palace announced in London. It said she will be the guest of William Farish, a racehorse owner and breeder and heir to a Texas oil fortune, at his farm near Lexington, Ky., May 22 through 26. The queen, who also owns horses, first met polo player Farish in 1973 at Windsor Castle.

--New Yorker Ahsrita Furman, 31, claimed a world record of 8 1/2 hours on a pogo stick to cover 11.1 miles up and down Mt. Fuji. He admitted he was “sore all over from jumping like an ostrich,” but added, “when you challenge yourself, it gives other people a lot of joy, and sometimes you inspire them, too.” Furman, who owns a health food store, is no stranger to records: He has somersaulted through Central Park, and once clapped his hands for 50 hours and 17 minutes.