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...previous Saturday, at Santiago's Circulo Español, the city's largest club, an overflow crowd of 1,500 gathered, ostensibly to honor Christian Democratic Party President Gabriel Valdés. A former Foreign Minister under President Eduardo Frei, Valdés, 63, used the occasion to unveil a new coalition of Chile's five main parties, excluding the Communists. Calling itself the Democratic Alliance, the group demanded that Pinochet give way to a provisional government leading to elections within 18 months...
...officer caste, drawn traditionally from the middle class and poorer gentility, splurges fortunes on such status symbols as Caracas' $10 million officers' club, the marble-and-gilt Circulo de las Fuerzas Armadas. Early retirement is a huge drain on treasuries. Argentina has 20,000 retired officers v. 10,000 on active duty; Brazil's out-to-pasture list includes 1,500 generals and 38 field marshals...
Earlier this year, however, an official of Madrid's Circulo de Bellas Artes, cleaning out the club's storerooms, found the plates again, hidden among bags of coal, pieces of broken furniture and ruined statuary in the basement. Last week the plates were cleaned and readied once more for the presses. The Circulo will put out a fifth edition of the Tauromaquia, limited to 500 copies, to sell...
Fashionable porteños play Canasta from 6, when offices close, until 9:30-just before dinner time. The new game has swept the swank Jockey Club and the Circulo de Armas; the presidents of those fabulously wealthy organizations solemnly met with the president of the Argentine Bridge Association to codify the rules and scoring of the game. For the benefit of their pet charities a dozen women's clubs held Canasta tournaments last week at the Plaza and Alvear Palace Hotels...
...Circulo Militar, the Argentine Army officers' club in B.A., is stiff and dignified enough to be mistaken for the Foreign Office on the other side of the Plaza San Martin. At the Circulo last week, some 1,200 wives & daughters of Army officers gathered to honor Eva Duarte de Perón. But they did not don furs & feathers out of love for la Señora. This was a command performance arranged by Doña Ines Serpa de Sosa Molina, wife of Peron's Minister of War, to make up for snubs that...