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...place be turned over to the Government at her death, along with a $200,000 per-annum trust fund for upkeep. Mar-A-Lago is a treasure of colonnades and turrets, built of stone from Italy, 36,000 tiles made in 15th century Spain, frescoes copied from the Medici Palace in Florence, silk needlework panels from the Venetian Doge's palace. Suites are done in Louis XVI style or in Spanish or Early American. Outside are a nine-hole golf course and archipelagoes of reflecting pools and fountains...
...Peace mobilized artists more than any other issue, at least since World War II," H. Stuart Hughes said. The market for the arts has widened from the few Medici-rich-family commissions to the mass public, thus making possible fund raising in the form of auctions and sales. At a time when artists are regrouping to paint individual pictures, it seems reasonable to from groups to sell their works and support their beliefs...
...Yomuiriland. But it is in Brazil, where a tropical climate leaves no alternative, that plastic skiing has demonstrated its greatest appeal. In the past four years, 300,000 persons have driven the long dirt road that winds past lush palm, orange and banana trees to get to the President Medici Ski Station in the southern town of Garibaldi (pop. 8,000). There, on a steep hillside, are two plastic-covered ski runs, four chalets and a 40-chair lift...
...generals brought in as Finance Minister Antonio Delfim Netto, a brilliant, bullying Sao Paulo State finance secretary and former economics professor. Delfim has been given a free hand in running the economy and now, at 43, is the second most powerful man in Brazil, after President Emilio Garrastazu Medici...
...benefits of the new wealth have been largely confined to the middle-class minority, while the majority remains mired in varying degrees of poverty. Even President Medici concedes: "The economy is going well, the people not so well." As a start on redistributing the wealth, the government now requires employers to open bank accounts for all employees and deposit part of the firm's profits into them. Workers are permitted to draw on this account only to buy a house, pay medical bills or pursue other goals that the government deems worthwhile...