Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first major step toward building a common market for Latin America will come in midsummer, when officials of the two existing markets-the eleven-nation Latin American Free Trade Association and the five-nation Central American Common Market- will meet to discuss plans for merging the two zones into one economic com munity. Meanwhile, the Latins will talk among themselves about multilateral plans for better education, health and communications. By autumn, the first details of Latin America's new direction should begin to take shape...
...year, to add some zing to the traditional cathedral and cháteau trips, there is an association called Relais de Campagne to plan gourmet tours of 76 superb country inns in the provinces. Up for rediscovery this season: Périgord, a dreamy river-filled region of south-central France long famed for its truffles, which offers splendid, inexpensive food, as well as a growing number of excellent hotels...
...were ruined by last fall's floods; yet all but 150 will be back in business this summer. The city has not only recovered but has actually turned the flood damage into a high-powered attraction. Visitors can now take a guided tour of the Boboli Gardens, central "hospital" for damaged paintings and manuscripts, and watch craftsmen doing the delicate job of restoring the damaged masterpieces in a limonaia (a one-time hothouse for growing lemons...
Putty Face. And so, ad agencies are raiding Central Casting and even scouring the streets to find talented faces that are, as Talent Agent Bill Cunningham puts it, "not offensively attractive." If an actor is cursed with a pretty face, Cunningham advises him to go to casting calls "looking frumpy." But not even messed-up hair and baggy clothes can disguise a Beautiful, and more likely than not the job will go to someone like Douglas Paul, a copywriter-turned-actor who has fat, freckles and a grandiose nose. Among Paul's starring roles: an Arrow Shirt commercial...
...central character is Frankenstein Roosevelt, a power-mad, aristocratic cripple whose props are a wheelchair, a cigarette holder and a pile of postage stamps. Among the characters are his five children, members of a dynasty who will some day run the country (or so everybody assumes), and an adviser named Popkins, who is usually dressed in a bathrobe and is really a Russian in disguise. The plot revolves around Frankenstein's attempts to sell the country out piecemeal to the Communists. The play ends happily when That Man dies of what looks like a stroke (actually, the deed...