Word: bolivar
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...spectacular spending and steady success in the oilfields, Mecom is conservative enough to hedge his bets with other investments. He bought half of the new San Francisco Hilton for $14.5 million, has spent another $10.4 million on the Warwick Hotel in Houston, owns the 425-room Gran Hotel Bolivar in Lima, Peru. He also controls a New Jersey company that turns out the fast-selling Boonton plastic tableware. Another holding: Houston's Reed Roller Bit Co., which Mecom hopes eventually to make into an oil-equipment supply company rivaling the Hughes Tool Co. Most of all, however, Mecom intends...
...Alberto Lleras Camargo, twice President (1945-46, 1958-62) of Colombia, onetime O.A.S. secretary-general-LL.D. The vision of Bolivar finds contemporary expression in the life of this able son of the New World...
...Kill a Mockingbird). Despite all the publicity, she insisted, "I am the wife of a public figure but not one in my own right." With that, the couple went into seclusion on the ranch, which is 125 miles southwest of Caracas and was once owned by Simón Bolivar. The Rockefellers picnicked on a 6,500-ft. mountain, relaxed in the white twelve-room hacienda. They were isolated from the rest of the world except for a single radiotelephone circuit. Critical Clergymen. Meanwhile, away from the ranch, there was continued criticism of the wedding, especially by clergymen. Declared Philadelphia...
...Trinidad's Angostura Bitters, brewed originally at the Orinoco River town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) by an ex-Prussian army surgeon named J.G.B. Siegert, and now shipped around the world from Port of Spain in millions of bottles containing a sauce whose secret, boasts the company, is "as hard to fathom as Mona Lisa's smile...
...Simon Bolivar and Benito Juarez, and write essays contrasting the Aztec and Mayan civilizations...