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Elsewhere, marimbas and flutes picked up the tune. In a dusty square 600 years old, graceful girls gathered, and three days & nights of fiesta, fun and fireworks, drinking and dancing got under...
...merriment-minded Tehuantepec, any pretext for a party goes; the commonest is a wedding. By custom, after the newlyweds retire, celebrators gather outside the bridal chamber, drinking and shouting broad sallies at the groom. Later, when he comes out to greet the crowd, firecrackers explode and an all-night fiesta starts. Scarcely less gay are wakes and funerals (where a favored dirge is the tune of Yes, We Have No Bananas). There are 21 scheduled community fiestas a year in the town...
That night the town crowned a queen, pretty Bernarda Morales, daughter of a warehouse watchman, and danced until dawn. For still a third day and night, the fiesta went on. Then, exhausted, Tehuantepec went to bed. Back of the bougain-villea-twined wall, a guitar plunked and a lazy voice rose...
...raise the needed funds, Chatô has turned the whole pressure of his 28 newspapers, five magazines, 19 radio stations and two TV transmitters on Brazil's other millionaires. Last week Chatô pulled off his flashiest fund-raising stunt: a fiesta on the cruiser Almirante Tamandaré (once the U.S.S. St. Louis) in Rio Harbor. Piped aboard from gigs and barges came Senators, ministers, governors and industrialists, together with their ladies. Chatô greeted them, fed them Beef Stroganoff and champagne punch, and made a speech...
...vortex of paper plates, pop bottles and fluttering fans, 800 sweating delegates of the Philippines' Nacionalista Party met in Manila Hotel's Fiesta Pavilion one day last week to pick their presidential nominee for next November's election. It was hot and noisy, as a good convention should be. But the suspense did not last long...