Word: fiestas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special art exhibits, an international film festival, a New Orleans jazz band, Belgium's Ballet of the 20th Century, the Laterna Magika show from Czechoslovakia, and Mexico's own famed Folklórico dance troupe. It all ends up, as the Mexicans predicted, as a big fiesta for the whole world...
...noon of Sunday, the 6th of July, the fiesta exploded .,. . It kept up day and night for seven days. The dancing kept up, the drinking kept up, the noise went on." Thus, in 1926 in The Sun Also Rises, did a young Ernest Hemingway describe the Feria de San Fermin, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. This month his widow Mary made a sentimental journey to Pamplona to witness the unveiling of a monument to Papa, erected by the citizens in gratitude for his interest in their fiesta. Standing on the newly named Paseo de Hemingway, Mary thanked...
...colored animals. Villagers labor for months to produce a panoramic Nativity scene for display during the Christmas season. Girard has assembled 200 Mexican figures which would originally have served as background in Nativity scenes, into one tableau. It portrays the busy market that thrives in any village on a fiesta day. To add a contemporary note, he even introduced camera-toting Yanquis into one Peruvian market-scene miniature...
...Indian ruins (see color pages). What's more, with the Olympics scheduled to open in Mexico City on Oct. 12, this will be a billion-' dollar year for Mexican tourism-the biggest ever. Mexicans are going all out to make a stay in their country one long fiesta and to turn the Olympics into "a party for the whole world...
...concerned, we're roughing it now," said Daniel Hawley, lounging with his wife in front of their self-contained, $13,000 Cortez bus camper, while their three children splashed in the swimming pool at Florida's Fiesta Key Resort. Near by, Joseph Haigh and his wife took the sun beside their Dodge camper, a 27-ft.-long bus that, when fully equipped with stainless-steel galley, stall shower, toilet and bunks for six, can cost more than $16,000. "We're land cruisers now," says Haigh, who gave up a lifetime of boating after...