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Hilton International plans to stop operating the San Jeronimo Hilton, which will close unless its new owners, a local business group, find other hotel people to run it. The Dorado Hilton is scheduled to shut in June, when Hilton International ends operations there. The Dorado Hilton's owners, International Investment Co., got a promise of a $500,000 loan from the Puerto Rican government to help refurbish the hotel; they hope to reopen it in December. In addition, the government plans to buy San Juan's exclusive but ailing Racquet Club Hotel for $4,500,000 and turn...
...Loss of El Dorado, by V.S. Naipaul. A literary re-creation of the his tory of Trinidad, which evokes the terror, avarice and cynicism accompanying the development of the New World...
...like it? Well, what you SEE is what you GET. OOO-WAAH-O!" The sly black face next appears supported by a clerical collar. Now it is the Rev. Leroy of the Church of What's Happening Now. "Reverend!" cries an elder. "There's a blue El Dorado illegally parked outside." The good pastor favors the elder with a seraphic grin. "The Lord smiled down on me in last week's raffle...
...Thank you for "Thoughts on a Troubled El Dorado" [June 22]. I am a 17-year-old girl graduating from high school today with a peace symbol on my cap. I appreciate the opportunity you have provided for those mentally distant masses labeled the "Silent Majority" to catch some glimmer of understanding into the puzzle of my fellow protesters and students. The political and social extremists in America today may never be able to accept or condone each other's actions, but they must begin to listen and try at least to understand. Hopefully, listening will eventually lead...
...Thoughts on a Troubled El Dorado" slighted consideration of the following...