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Juan Peron has been like a generous rich uncle to the members of Buenos Aires' High-School Girls' Union. Since he first started teaching them to ride motorcycles at his presidential quinta in suburban Olivos last August, he has hardly let a day pass without some kindness. Recently he gave the union the rambling old presidential palace on downtown Calle Suipacha-unused since President Ramon Castillo's overthrow in 1943-for a clubhouse. To notable girl athletes he gives a standard present: a plastic vanity case with $36 inside...
...bride of a British mining engineer. After he drifted out of the picture, she moved to Arequipa and started a guesthouse with a small garden. In time it grew into a long, rambling structure surrounded by a pleasant jungle of trellised roses, honeysuckle and bougainvillaea. She called it Quinta Bates, and ran it with an imperious hand; travelers came to esteem it as the finest boarding house in the Western Hemisphere...
...princes (including the British brothers who became Edward VIII and George VI) enjoyed the hospitality of plain Mrs. Bates, who was known as tia (aunt) up and down the west coast. Film Star Clark Gable once journeyed 1,000 miles out of his way just to stay at Quinta Bates. Guests liked to sit in Tia Bates's museum-like house and, over Scotch-and-sodas or pisco sours, listen to her talk. Her memory was long and her stories often spicy. Guests also found the quinta hard to leave (two of them stayed 16 years). Noel Coward once...
Arequipa came to think that Tia Bates was as monumental and enduring as El Misti, but last week she was dead of uremia and old age (almost 85). Indians and whites crowded Quinta Bates to mourn. Said a weeping Quechua: "She was like charapa the land turtle-hard outside, tender inside...
From Madrid to the most remote villages, young Spaniards went on parade last week. Some sported colored paper hats. Others lurched along brimful of wine. All wore on their chests red-and-gold cardboard badges with the inscription "Quinta 50"-Class of 1950. The young men, 160,000 of them, were going to join the Spanish army, the biggest non-Communist fighting force in Europe today...