Word: cielito
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Barnstorming through Florida, Presidential Candidate Hubert H. Humphrey had a serendipitous confrontation with one of Tampa's more compelling voters. Cielito Lindo is a dusky, almond-eyed Puerto Rican farm-girl-turned-stripper with 38-24-36 to show for herself. The candidate personally pinned an H.H.H. button on Cielito's well-cloven chest. "Come over here," he said, munching a sandwich and patting the seat next to him. "Tell me, what is your real name?" Then, while press cameras clicked, he did not exactly steal a kiss...
...probably the best advertised. In their flatbottomed, flower-decked canoas, Xochimilco's boatmen pole sightseers, picnickers and lovers between the canals' eucalyptus-lined banks. Other canoes with gardenias, carnations and violets draw alongside; or gondolalike chalupas glide up while their mariachis play and sing La Paloma or Cielito Lindo. Some of the big canoas have luncheon tables in their centers at which the tourists can eat mole and tortillas and drink the famed Mexican beer...
...from Maestro Karl Krueger, her conductor and friend, Margaret began. She tackled the reasonably simple Cielito Lindo with power and control, sang the tricky aria, Charmant Oiseau, with swooping zest (and a few flat notes), and coasted home with the well-worn Last Rose of Summer, a song her father had requested...
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