Word: haciendas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love in ways that they thought both wise and well. They memorialized their folkways in ceramics, shaped like pots and flagons and called huacos. Last week Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, U.S. sachem of scientific sex studies, popped up among the huacos in the famed Rafael Larco Herrera Museum at Hacienda Chiclin, near Trujillo, still Pursuing his researches into the ways of love through the ages...
Last week, after persuading 1,700 Californians to invest $1,320,000, Bayley, now 53 > finally opened his dream inn, one of the biggest motels (329 bedrooms) in the U.S. At his tile-roofed, Mediterranean-style Hacienda in Fresno, Calif, (pop. 91,669), Bayley has king-size (6 ft. 8 in.) beds, individual room air conditioning. A $1,000,000 "activities center" houses a coffee shop, restaurant, banquet rooms, two bars. One of the Hacienda's two swimming pools has a glass wall so that patrons in a basement bar get an underwater view of the swimmers...
...Spanish hacienda near the Orinoco River, a U.S. Steel Corp. engineer named Folke Kihlstedt slowly pushed a stereoscopic viewer over some three-dimensional aerial photographs. A long, low, narrow mountain seemed to spring out of the paper toward him. To his trained eye, the vegetation, watercourses and the hues of the earth were meaningful. "That could be iron ore," he decided...
...camp, and continuing until Broennimann's pain-racked feet would take him no farther. Marx rushed on for help; the Broennimanns huddled together four days and nights through a raging blizzard. Marcus feared that his feet might have to be cut off. But last week, carried to a hacienda at the foot of Salcantay, Broennimann was resting with the comforting assurance from a local doctor that amputation would not be necessary...
...complex child of simple, ambitious parents. "Phoebe Apperson Hearst," wrote Hearstling Winifred Black Bonfils in an official biography, "was born [1842] in an old-fashioned American home, on an old-fashioned American farm in the old-fashioned American State of Missouri. She died in a magnificent Spanish hacienda in California, surrounded with every exotic luxury that the brain of man could conceive, or the heart of woman desire." She married a rough & rowdy Missouri Argonaut named George Hearst, who lost two fortunes, but won three in gold & silver. In San Francisco, on April 29, 1863, she gave birth...