Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caribbean's other dictator-turned-tourist, Venezuela's Marcos Pèrez Jimènez, turned up last week in an air-conditioned suite in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, blandly told reporters he was only trying to beat the heat of Miami Beach, where he lives. He is also trying to beat what the U.S. State Department calls "very good" chances of deporting him-and he has talented help. His attorney is Miamian David W. Walters, who performed a similar service for Cuban ex-President Carlos Prio Socarrás. Grinned Walters last week: "Prio stayed seven...
When Rio's police scooped up Lowell McAfee Birrell, 52, a month ago, it seemed likely that Brazil would deport him posthaste. Indicted in Manhattan on 69 counts of grand larceny and held on suspicion of entering Brazil on a false passport, the man accused of stealing $14 million worth of stock from a pair of U.S. companies appeared certain to end up inside a U.S. courtroom, even though the U.S. and Brazil do not have an extradition treaty...
...Brazil, reveling in the unaccustomed role of a rich-but-heroic David pitted against the ruthless power of a Wall Street-dominated U.S.-Government Goliath. And New York Assistant District Attorney James V. Hallisey, who had gone to Rio to push Birrell back to the U.S., was back in Manhattan empty handed...
...elegant. U.S.-born widow of Spain's auto-racing Marquis Alfonso de Portago came close to meeting death on wheels, as did the marquis in Italy's exhausting Mille Miglia road race in 1957. Under far tamer circumstances, attractive Carol Portago, 35, was crossing Manhattan's bustling Fifth Avenue last week when a taxicab, brakes gone, rolled into the intersection, plowed into Carol and two lady companions. Catapulted into the air, the marquesa came down against the cab's windshield, was indecorously given a short free ride. At week's end, with minor leg injuries...
...graduate students (tuition: $500) are not only sharpening their specialties in the classroom. Next month they will put them to grass-roots work by living among the state's Cheyenne Indians and next winter in a Mexican village. The most ambitious scheme of all is planned by Manhattan's Committee for an International Institute: a three-month language and culture course for as many as 300 executives and their wives at a time. No campus could be more symbolic than the one the committee is trying to buy: New York Bay's now abandoned port of entry...