Word: hipodromo
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Rain of Stone. The time was 12:33 on a bright, warm Sunday afternoon. President Eduardo Frei was watching an air show outside Santiago when an invisible force seemed to seize and shake him. In Santiago's Hipodromo, 3,000 racing fans fled in panic as the grandstand roof heaved and cracked. Terrified swimmers in the open-air pool of the Hotel Carrera watched the water suddenly leap in foot-high waves. Three blocks away, cornices peeled off the Supreme Court and Congress buildings and rained down on the street...
...Italy under the immigrant Gianninis, and turned a substantial fortune speculating in stocks. On vacations in Mexico, he struck up a profitable palship with Manuel Avila Camacho, who, on becoming President in 1940, invited Pagliai to settle in Mexico and helped him start Mexico City's splendid Hipodromo de las Americas race track on an army parade ground. Avila Camacho's successor, Miguel Aleman, also became friendly with Pagliai, helped him to form his seamless tube company, TAMSA, in 1952, the year Aleman left office...
...Eppenauer's Gob: the 10,000-peso ($2,000) Inaugural Handicap, opening-day feature of Mexico City's resplendent new Hipodromo de las Americas (TIME, Feb. 15); before a crowd of 44,000, largest in Mexican sports history...
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