Word: fincas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leftist opposition movement that will test the Frente Nacional's strength in congressional elections next week. But for the first time in years, the atmosphere is hopeful. Pablo Samper, a Bogota businessman, actually took his wife with him on a recent visit to his 5,000-acre finca in northern Tolima department. "I used to spend the weekends there with my family," he says. "Maybe the time will come again...
Leaving her 13-acre Finca Vigia estate and its 5,500-volume library to "the Cuban people-not the government," Mary Welsh Hemingway gathered together "a mountain of papers" from a bank vault in nearby Havana and returned to the States. Describing herself as "totally ignorant on political matters," the widow of Nobel-Laureate Ernest Hemingway remained tight-lipped about the Castro regime ("For some of our friends in Cuba, the change in government has been better and for some, worse") as she laid over in Tampa prior to "going to New York to talk with lawyers about the estate...
While Cuba's cultural commissars pondered converting Ernest Hemingway's 13-acre Finca Vigia into a museum, his widow, Mary Welsh Hemingway, was more concerned about his literary monument. Spending what may be her last weeks at their longtime Cuban home, Mrs. Hemingway, as per her husband's request, destroyed personal papers, culled his "hundreds of thousands of typewritten pages" for marginal notes like "burn this" or "this is pretty good" as a guide to what to publish and what to let perish. Among the manuscripts that Mary Hemingway may or may not ever release: The Dangerous...
...paid for children born out of wedlock." Goldwater also took the trouble to deny that his remarks had "anything to do" with a potential rival for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination-New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who gingerly denounced the Newburgh plan before going to his Venezuelan finca for a vacation. At week's end, with the state preparing to fight Mitchell's code in the courts,* even Newburghers were beginning to wonder whether the plan was necessary after all. In the first muster of male reliefers last week, only one man (of the three...
...Gustavo Rojas Pinilla just before their downfalls. Signed by all six bishops of the Dominican Republic, the letter was a politely furious response to the imprisonment of 2,000 leading citizens packed off to La Victoria jail on the outskirts of Ciudad Trujillo and a concentration camp at Finca del Diablo, 20 miles north of the capital...