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Away from the coast, Venezuela is a varied land of goat-ridden droughtland, snowy peaks, Amazonian jungle and the lofty, remote eastern mesas where Sir Walter Raleigh looked for El Dorado. Bone-chilled peasants tend their flocks of goats on the slopes of a spur of the Andes; cowboys ride through the tough, chest-high grass of the llanos-Venezuela's central prairie-driving herds of bony cattle before them. In one of the few spots in Venezuela that are radically changed-a cooperative sugar farm on the estate of a Pérez Jiménez crony long...
...plenty-of-play, little-work plans. But between rounds he invaded the Allen kitchen. While a cook stood by, Ike donned an apron, broiled steaks for the boys. Though happily at home at the range, Ike gladly left dishes behind while he directed his main energies toward the El Dorado Country Club course four miles away, a tough par 72 that the President, far off his game, did not come close...
...lifelong interests in travel, conservation, development of backward areas. In the Virgin Islands. Rockefeller set up the 600-acre Cancel Bay Plantation resort, donated another 5,000-acre plot that became the U.S.'s 29th national park. In Puerto Rico he built the lavish $9,000,000 Dorado Beach Hotel. While Rockefeller thinks that the Caribbean will become a winter Riviera for the Western world, he expects to lose money there, "for the foreseeable present." Usually, Rockefeller invests for the long pull; he expects investments to take ten years, or even 20, to pay off. Some never...
...Genially hosted the entire thousand-guest conference-Governors, aides, newsmen, wives, children-for a half-day's free play at brother Laurance's $9,000,000 Dorado Beach Hotel and Golf Club, cheered others on to fun and frolic but kept himself busy at his political chores except for one much-photographed ocean...
...Dorado Beach has 136 rooms in nine two-story beach houses. Rooms start at $45 daily, sleeping cabanas at $35. Guests get breakfast, dinner, two miles of reef and beach, 1,250 acres planted largely to flowers and specimen trees, three cork-topped tennis courts. They also get an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones and supervised by Ed Dudley, formerly President Eisenhower's pro at the Augusta National. Surfaced in a fine-strained Bermuda grass, the course winds along 7,110 yards of lake, coconut grove, ocean, ends at a Spanish-colonial mansion remodeled into...