Word: oro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some campaigns approach sex with humor. Stella D'Oro is selling breadsticks with a 60-second study of a girl hip-swiveling her way down a Rome street and another of a girl who ignores a crush of handsome men in favor of a runt carrying a sackful of Stella D'Oros...
Women & Lies. His first chance to show how came in his native Dominican Republic with Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo's 17-year-old daughter Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold). Rubi was only a 22-year-old army captain and palace aide, and the Dominican dictator was not very enthusiastic about the match, but he made his new son-in-law a minor envoy to Berlin and was soon convinced he had done the right thing. "He's an excellent diplomat," exclaimed papa, "because women like him and because he is a liar." Flor de Oro tired of Rubirosa...
...Dominican government, which has its own extradition proceedings under way. The accusers are members of the Trujillo clan itself-precisely which ones, the lawyers were not saying. But the talk around the Dominican Republic suggested a daughter of the dictator's first marriage, Flor de Oro, and Trujillo's second wife, Bienvenida Ricardo, both believed to be in Montreal; two children, Rafael and Yolanda, born to longtime mistress, Lina Lovatón, all three of whom live in Miami. The story goes that they are on the outs with Rhadamés and the rest for hogging...
When the gold mines gave out at Concepcion del Oro in central Mexico, Fidel Escalante, 56, did what hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans are doing each year: he packed his few belongings and set out to start life over again in the big city. But his new life is hardly better than the old one: occasionally he gets work as a bricklayer, and his home is a hovel in the "misery belt" of shantytowns that ring Mexico City. "I'd like to go back to my village," he says, "but there's no use talking about...
...what Italians respectfully call "Il Miracolo Marzotto." The Marzottos own textile plants in six other Italian towns, are Europe's largest producer of woolens. They own huge farms, 60 low-priced Jolly Hotels scattered throughout Sicily and Italy, and ten clothing shops that handle their Fuso d'Oro (golden spindle) readymade clothing, which they pioneered in tailor-ridden Italy. Revenues last year from the Marzotto enterprises exceeded $100 million...