Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets to beaches, lakes, mountains. In buses chartered by sports clubs, other sweating thousands rattled off for a day's dip in the chill Pacific, just two hours away at San Antonio. The luckiest Chileans, including President Gabriel González Videla, lolled in the luxury of Vina del Mar, where they improved their tans on white crescent beaches, on yacht decks, or on the balconies of flower-girt villas...
...Slacks. At an even greater rate, Argentines were pouring into Mar del Plata, the Atlantic City of the south. With 300,000 vacationists jamming its villas and 671 hotels, it had become for the season Argentina's third city. The renowned Hector y Su Jazz played nightly to capacity crowds at the world's largest casino. Beachgoers dined on steaks two inches thick, tangoed to a new tune called El Cafetin de Buenos Aires, then wound up their day with a fling at roulette. Though nowadays only waiters and casino attendants dressed after dark, much...
...those who liked informality, there was Uruguay's cosmopolitan Punta del Este, where everybody wore slacks or bright bathing suits. Few Argentines could afford Uruguayan vacation rates any more (about $50 a day in inflated Argentine pesos), but Brazilians, who turned to Uruguay's casinos after their own were outlawed in 1946, partly made up for the absent visitors from the south...
Just after noon one day last week, Roberto, as his teammates called him, rode his horse up the steep path to tiny (pop. 150) San Pedro del Alto. Ten yards behind followed his Mexican assistant, Raul Sanchez. About 40 yards farther back rode three soldiers (the only armed men in the party) and a guide. Topping the rise, Roberto rode slowly up to the church on the sunbaked, cactus-hedged plaza. As he was about to dismount, he suddenly cried to Sanchez: "Get out quick, go back...
Taking its profit in pennies, Mar del Plata was making over $10 million a season. That suited the government, now the casino's sole owner. It suited the casino's 1,050 staffers, too. Their incomes, including tips, would run as high as $3,000 for the three-month season...