Word: palacios
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...Jascha Horenstein, Sir Thomas found evidence of his predecessor's influence in rehearsal. "You know what we do with a musician like him in England?" snapped Sir Thomas. "We clap him in the Tower!" By the time Sir Thomas was through, Mexico City's ornate marble Palacio de Bellas Artes resounded with some of the most warmly polished Mozart that Mexicans had ever heard. The audience at the opening night's Don Giovanni also approved Baritone John Brownlee's legs (the most beautiful Mexicans had seen since John Barrymore's Hamlet...
...anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart...
...jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President. When Avila Camacho stepped from his Cadillac limousine at the ground-floor entrance of the Palacio Nacional, he was accosted by 1st Lieut. José Antonio de Lama y Rojas, son of a wealthy merchant from the President's home state of Puebla. As the President turned to enter the private elevator, the 32-year-old lieutenant pulled a .45 revolver, blazed away. Before a second shot could be fired, the President grasped the assassin's wrist, twisted it until the gun clattered...
Last week Hispanidad scored a significant advance in Argentina. In the somber, greystone Palacio San Martin, the first of five pending cultural agreements between Spain and Argentina was ratified. The agreement provides for a free exchange of Spanish and Argentine publications, thus facilitates Fascist propaganda in the Americas...
...furniture, straightened somber religious pictures, made an old-fashioned brass bed. Icy rains had brought autumn to Argentina, and the master of the house in the Calle Juncal, Ramon S. Castillo, was moving in from his suburban quinta in Martinez beside the Rio de la Plata. In the domed Palacio del Congreso, Acting President Castillo's political housekeepers were similarly occupied. They swept out the debris of one of the most extraordinary sessions any legislative body had ever held, made ready for the opening of a new session of Congress this month. At this session Acting President Castillo must...