Word: castilla
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...Sheraton's 1,000-room hotel in Paris' Montparnasse, due to open in 1974, will be France's largest; the company is also erecting hotels in Stockholm and Buenos Aires. Jose Melia, Spain's largest hotel operator, is also building the 1,000-room Melia Castilla. in Madrid. Some governments follow Berlin's example by giving tax concessions on tourist construction. Results vary: 25 hotels are under way in Singapore while three are rising in Rio de Janeiro, including the circular Nacional, a 38-story tower...
...great and tremendous silence of fear and the most bitter and resigned conformism threaten to spread through all our organs of opinion which will now have to busy themselves with innocuous affairs or fall back on systematic hypocrisy." The editorial in the Spanish daily El Norte de Castilla had two meanings...
Divorced. Francis Lederer, 34, dark-eyed Czech-American actor; by Margo (real name: Maria Margharita Teresa Guadalupe Castilla Bolado), svelte Mexican-born dancer who turned cinemactress (Crime Without Passion, Winterset); after three years' marriage; in Las Vegas...
Virtual king of this island, and its only white resident, was Sergeant Restitute Castilla of the Spanish Colonial Guards. Weeks ago the lordly Sergeant began great preparations to entertain the Governor General of all Spanish Guinea. Island blacks were drilled in a wild, weird dance for His Excellency's edification. Came at last the great...
...inspecting small islands for days. He came at last to Annobon, wrung the trusty Sergeant's hand, sat down to a festive, tropical dinner and prepared to endure the native dance. Shrill native pipes squealed, drums throbbed. Black men began to dance and no one noticed white Sergeant Castilla...