Word: hacienda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This incident took place in 1949 at rock-strewn Vicos Hacienda, 10,000 feet up in the Andes northeast of Lima. But since then Vicos has changed. Last week Dr. Allan Holmberg, the scientist who wanted to save the child's life, reported on the change in a lecture at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, in Stanford, Calif...
Into Cruz's timeless existence one day, word came that the hacienda was to have a new patron with a curious name: Cornell University of Ithaca, N.Y. The faraway university proposed (with help from the Carnegie Corporation of New York) to experiment on the most effective ways for bringing modern know-how to primitive peoples. What the job required, in effect, was an isolated human laboratory; Cornell's Professor Holmberg, who once tramped the Andes on a field mission, had picked Vicos...
...love in ways that they thought both wise and well. They memorialized their folkways in ceramics, shaped like pots and flagons and called huacos. Last week Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, U.S. sachem of scientific sex studies, popped up among the huacos in the famed Rafael Larco Herrera Museum at Hacienda Chiclin, near Trujillo, still Pursuing his researches into the ways of love through the ages...
Last week, after persuading 1,700 Californians to invest $1,320,000, Bayley, now 53 > finally opened his dream inn, one of the biggest motels (329 bedrooms) in the U.S. At his tile-roofed, Mediterranean-style Hacienda in Fresno, Calif, (pop. 91,669), Bayley has king-size (6 ft. 8 in.) beds, individual room air conditioning. A $1,000,000 "activities center" houses a coffee shop, restaurant, banquet rooms, two bars. One of the Hacienda's two swimming pools has a glass wall so that patrons in a basement bar get an underwater view of the swimmers...
...Spanish hacienda near the Orinoco River, a U.S. Steel Corp. engineer named Folke Kihlstedt slowly pushed a stereoscopic viewer over some three-dimensional aerial photographs. A long, low, narrow mountain seemed to spring out of the paper toward him. To his trained eye, the vegetation, watercourses and the hues of the earth were meaningful. "That could be iron ore," he decided...