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...interfere with romantic ideals. The business activity centers in a small area of town, neither offending the visitor with pretentious architecture nor repelling him with dark alleys. In the older parts of town, the houses are whitewashed and highlighted in brilliant colors. The main sights are the cathedral, the Casa de Pilatos and the Alcazar; in each, you can see the upheavals the church, nobility, and military underwent from the time of the Moors through the 18th century. The Plaza de Espana, a tile masterpiece, is a 19th-century nightmare vision of Moorish construction...
...goodbye to John Mitchell, Rose Mary Woods, the California Angels and Bill Garcia? Richard and Pat Nixon, moving eastward into a Manhattan condominium, did it with two poolside margarita, taco, guacamole and fruit kebab parties at La Casa Pacifica. Former Attorney General Mitchell, marking his 66th birthday, was guest of honor at the first, a reunion to which 250 old hands of the Nixon Administration were invited. "John Mitchell has friends and he stands beside them," said the ex-President of the man who went to jail for obstructing justice in the Watergate investigations. The second party featured...
Pancho Villa raids the Casa Mexico every now and again, a good but overpriced place on Winthrop St. Iruna's, further on down Boylston, served Spanish food to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Some of their dishes are very good, but beware the bland paella. At Paco's Tacos, you'll often see Colonel Sanders chewing the fat and enchiladas with Paco...
...chain, and he kept the vanity press busy printing books praising himself; his folksy upbeat autobiography, Be My Guest, is in every one of the company's 64,000 hotel rooms, right next to the Gideon Bible. He lived regally in a 61-room mansion named Casa Encantata in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles, where 19 servants filled his every need, including buying his clothes. Yet Hilton retained an almost childlike wonder at the world around him. He also had some simple tastes, preferring corned beef hash or pork chops to any of the fancified dishes served...
...help out local Republican candidates, Richard and Pat Nixon threw a $250-a-person fund-raising party at La Casa Pacifica, which brought in about $100,000. Nixon reminisced about his memories of Orange County-the time he proposed to Pat at Dana Point and the days when he practiced law at La Habra. One of the most exuberant guests was John Wayne. Greeting the Missus with a bow and a kiss on the hand, the Duke said, "It's great to see Pat up and around and looking happy." As for her husband, the Duke enthused...