Word: hacienda
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Nelson Rockefeller owns three farms in Venezuela and will vacation in his hilltop hacienda-a white stucco colonial house with red tile roof built around a swimming pool-at La Mona, a 1,200-acre spread of potato and cattle land 90 miles southwest of Caracas. His farms are no mere rich man's fancy. Originally developed by the International Basic Economy Corp. (IBEC) that he founded to invest in Latin American development, the first farm lost so much money in a try at large-scale agriculture that Rockefeller bought it from IBEC, ran it himself...
...dash from one Havana club to another (he belongs to five) in a snappy Porsche, play golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place is called "Yemaya," an Afro-Cuban voodoo word for virgin; Hedges likes the name so well that he also gave...
...Honorable Man. As patriarch of the hacienda, Richard King sported a black beard that reached to the second button of his shirt. "He wore a wide-brimmed black hat strongly reminiscent of rebel cavalry, a black string tie with the knot hidden under the beard and the ends of the rusty silk usually askew. He went shod in the scuffed boots of a cowman no stranger to a corral. It was well known that when the captain appeared with one pants leg in and one pants leg out of his boot tops, the barometer was falling, the storm...
...Cabot (of the Back Bay Cabots), who first visited Taos as a member of a Harvard geological expedition in 1932 and soon took a summer place there, bought El Creeps nine years ago last month. Last year he moved it lock, stock and flatbed press into a pink adobe hacienda. The new location greatly improved working conditions: staffers who like drinks served with the news can walk through a door from the city room directly into a bar presided over by the mayor of Taos...
William D. Roberts has provided the play with highly effective colonnade settings which, with alternations, serve as a study, an English park, a Spanish moor, and a hacienda. The grass in front of the stage, moreover, makes a perfect roadway for the introduction of Tanner's early-model automobile...