Word: patagonia
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...1920s, the four sons of one family brought home a complete French brothel plus a year's supply of champagne and páté de foie gras-and in case that palled, they also brought 100 Ibs. of opium. Another turn-of-the-century estanciero in Patagonia got his kicks by staging Indian hunts with his chums; well-buttressed by booze, they rode out in parties of a dozen or so to slaughter the nomadic tribesmen who shared their pampas, and once had a grand day massacring an entire tribe they cornered in a seaside cove...
...Braun-Menendez family, ranging in age from 55 to 68, meet in a paneled Buenos Aires board room under a portrait of their late father Mauricio. Around the table each in turn stands up to discuss the fortunes and policies of Sociedad Anonima Importadora y Exportadora de la Patagonia. Something like a Hudson's Bay Co. of the Southern Hemisphere, "La Anonima" controls most of the commerce and communications in Patagonia, a wild and windswept region that sprawls nearly 1,500 miles south of Buenos Aires and stretches almost to the end of the world. "Other large and famous...
Trade & Land. The Braun-Menendezes own a fleet of twelve fishing and cargo ships, piers and a shipyard, and a six-plane airline called Austral with routes spanning 2,500 miles. Their 22 stores, selling everything from pins to pickup trucks, have prospered from Patagonia's oil boom; 600,000 sheep fatten on their vast ranches. In a holding company named La Josefina (after their mother), the family has impressive investments in Argentine banking, insurance and chemical companies. With all that diversity, they have prospered despite Argentina's continuing financial trouble. By family reckoning, their companies last year...
From the lush Pampas to dusty Patagonia, Argentine ranchers converged last week on Buenos Aires' fashionable Palermo Park to witness one of the year's most important rites: the judging of prize cattle at the Palermo Agricultural Show. Bulls so fat that they could hardly waddle were accompanied by cows to supply the ten gallons of milk, spiced with two dozen eggs, that the bulls drink each day. Peons attended the beasts' every need and rigidly enforced antinoise regulations during their four-hour siesta. Argentines take the whole thing very seriously, and with good reason: much...
...show, but this week ABC's Wide World of Sports (Sat., 5-6:30 p.m. E.D.T.) will present a program that sets a record of some sort. Having heard that the trout were biting in the Andes, Wide World packed its waders and took off for Patagonia. They drove two Jeeps and two trucks across the rising pampas to a null lake more than 200 miles from the nearest telephone...