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Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa moseyed into Bogotá, Colombia to make preparations for a genuine treasure hunt. Bracing himself for his safari's plunge into the Choco wilds on Colombia's Pacific Coast, Rubi, out to make the jungle give up some platinum and gold, first tested his luck at a race track, won a cool 9,600 pesos on a 100-to-1 shot. He also took his ease in Bogotá's elegantly stuffy Jockey Club, where he complained about the absence of vodka (he thirsted in vain for a Bloody Mary). Colombia...
Anti-"Government" Parties. Around convertibles, mambos and soda fountains, reports Bogotá's weekly Semana, Colombian teen-agers are building "a fresh, good-natured society"−the "cocacolos." For inspiration, youth draws more and more on the U.S. Typical day, according to Semana...
...Like businessmen, Bogotá's teen-agers resolve most of their problems by telephone, so a girl first sets up operational headquarters in a chair next to the phone table, with the radio close by, magazines spread all over the floor and an interminable Coke dangling from her free hand. 'The government' [her parents] does not understand at all, but getting up a teenage party requires agonizing preparation. Henry, a Tyrone Power type with a notably gay mambo style, won't come if Gladys is invited because she just put him in a state of siege...
...BREINDL Bogotá, Colombia...
Peru's Foreign Office announced last week that diplomatic negotiations with Colombia in Bogotá had produced a neighborly agreement for the ending of Latin America's most celebrated case of political asylum: that of Peruvian Leftist Leader Haya de la Torre, accused of heading an abortive revolution in 1948. A refugee in Colombia's Lima embassy since 1949, Haya will probably be allowed to go into exile in Uruguay...