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After London's meeting of the UNO Preparatory Commission decided to place UNO's capital in the U.S., the fight narrowed down to San Francisco v. the East. Said Antonio Parra Velasco of Ecuador: "San Francisco is a city of wine, and where there is wine there is civilization, culture and the spirit of enthusiasm which we need." The British preferred to argue this point on its merits. Professor C. K. Webster, the United Kingdom's alternate delegate, said he had found the wines of the Hudson Valley equal to those of California...
...dromo de las Américas, Mexico's horse track backed by U.S. expatriate "Sell 'em" Ben Smith and President Manuel Avila Camacho's late brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Result: Host Padilla, Colombia's Foreign Minister Alberto Lleras Camargo, Venezuela's Carraciolo Parra-Perez each lost 50 pesos on a long shot. Nicaragua's Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa won 500 pesos ($103) on two races...
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Caracciolo Parra-Pérez used only one gesture as he rose to speak. He shook a furious finger under the pained nose of Ruiz...
When Carlos Chavez began to write music he was barely out of his teens. A seventh child, he was born near Mexico City in 1899, first studied piano with his brother Manuel, later with teachers like Asuncion Parra and Pedro Ogazón. At 22, Chavez met José Vasconcelos, the radical Secretary of Education who hired Rivera to paint the famous murals in his Secretariat. Vasconcelos gave Chavez the commission for his first ballet, The New Fire...