Word: carrasco
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...when the F-27 turboprop, manned by a crew of five, took off from Montevideo for Santiago, Chile, normally a 2½-hr, flight. Aboard were 16 members of the Old Christians, a rugby team composed of socially prominent college boys from the prosperous Montevideo suburb of Carrasco. Along with 24 friends and relatives, they were making a trip to Chile for a series of matches. Because of bad weather in the mountains, the plane was forced to stop at Mendoza, Argentina. The players used the layover to stock up on chocolate for their Chilean hosts...
...rewards of the switch to the middle class are enticing. In San Cristóbal de las Casas, Erasto Urbina, once a barefoot peon on a southern coffee plantation, now runs a store that amply provides for his family of 8. Juan Carrasco, bellhop and car-parker at the capital's Continental Hilton, proudly drives his own green 1947 Plymouth...
...close touch with anti-Villarroel elements are Dr. Luis Fernando Guachalla, the deposed Bolivian Government's Ambassador to the U.S., and Manuel Carrasco, former President of the Bolivian Senate...
...lone hand for his support is woefully weak; but this only serves to further emphasize the haunting beauty of his performance. Particularly are the other players impeded by their accents, which immediately put them out of character. Sancho Panza, in the person of George Robey, talks Cockney. And Carrasco with his Oxford lisp seems more the bespectacled grind than the heroic flance. These too noticeable incongruities make it difficult to imagine oneself in the Spain of the seventeenth century...