Word: concha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week later, a second new hotel will open-the 297-room, $7,200,000 twelve-story La Concha (The Seashell) on the San Juan beachfront. With a casino, eight restaurants and cocktail lounges, a sea-shell-shaped nightclub set by surf's edge. La Concha is aimed to please the crowd bored with Miami and scared of going to Havana because of the Cuban rebellion. The Puerto Rican government built the hotel for $6,000,000. leased it for two-thirds of the net to Associated Federal Hotels, a Southwestern chain (Phoenix's Westward Ho, San Antonio...
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...flanked by an aisle on each side. The vaulted appearance, where the arched tunnels crossed, readily suggested a cathedral to many visitors. The idea took hold, and three years ago the Bank of the Republic, which operates the Zipaquira mines, assigned Architect José Maria González Concha to finish part of the galleries as a church...
...strict elastic cinch are the most straight-forward decorative shape. Heraldic emblems are still popular, and vary in size from an inch diameter to giant encrustations of spurious coats-of-arms. A gleaming creation that is not strictly a cinch at all but a development of the Mexican concha-style is the belt made entirely of nationalistic or heraldic emblems joined with links. Some belts have buckles or clasps of an ingenious and occasionally coy sort, such as lock-and-key or hinges like the sort found on heavy oaken doors...