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...high-ceilinged lobby was almost bare; there was now a bar and a barber shop (but no hot water). There was dancing every night in what had been the "Fiesta Pavilion," now roofed by makeshift sheets of galvanized iron. Bright decorations hid fire-blackened walls. The furniture was rickety, the silverware a jumble of designs-anything that could be borrowed. But Manila again had its galas. The "Grand Hotel" was now a symbol of hopeful days ahead: the Government hoped to have it spick & span, newly furnished by July 4, the day set for Philippine independence...
After the election came carnival. Posters blaring announcements of fiesta dances encroached on the tattered billboard images of Perón and Tamborini. Argentines who could afford it rushed off to the villas and casino of Mar del Plata. Yet Argentina, recovering slowly from the calmest election day-and bitterest campaign-in its history, was hardly in a carnival mood. It was still dazed. Juan Pueblo, the man on the Buenos Aires street corner, contemplating the strange, post-election calm, said "Parece raro-Seems funny...
Everett Hoagland, the young American who leads the band at Giro's, saw he dance at a Veracruz fiesta. He orchestrated the simple folk melody and noted down its dance steps. Back at Giro's he began to alternate it with his regular fare of rumbas, sambas and congas. Within six weeks Mexico City's socialites, free-spending European expatriates and Amerlean travelers were calling for nothing but La Bamba. As they do it at Giro's. La Bamba is actually a Mexican version of the Cuban rumba, but more of a bouncy folk dance...
Funds for the fiesta had been begged by students bearing chamber pots. They paid for scurrilous floats and costumes, and an unmerciful kidding that spared nobody, friend or foe. Some of the victims...
...production of lighters to 45,000 a month, of razors to a million. As he started back to Mexico, Reynolds sadly admitted that these production goals may be too high. Mexico has innumerable national and local holidays a year, and for days after each celebration absenteeism among the fiesta-loving workers runs high...