Word: fincas
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...told I'm too independent. It's a fault when you can't say 'Help!' but all I can do is retire and get solitary and work things out for myself." On such occasions, Diana will sometimes slip away to an old finca she bought some years ago on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. There is no electricity at the house. Characteristically, she does not plan...
...estate's manager, a naturalized Turk. But too many of the details do not stand up to examination. Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach does not own any ranch in Argentina. Al-fried Krupp's sister, Waldtraut Burckhardt, does own one in Salta province but it is called Finca Ampascachi, not Rancho Grande. The manager is a German, not a naturalized Turk...
...himself as a defiant Hemingway hero. He begins his narrative with those familiar short sentences: "The Juan March stood off the docks of Palma harbor. I needed coffee." Like so many would-be Hemingway heroes, though, he sees the role largely in terms of self-indulgence. He has a finca and a Mercedes and a pet monkey, and he boasts of his romantic adventures in a prose style that would embarrass even the creator of Across the River and into the Trees. Of Nina, he writes: "Call it love, call it madness -it may have been both...
...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...