Word: patios
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...home of the first Pan American. A chill Andean drizzle fell as they gathered at the Quinta de Bolivar to sip champagne and then duck by turns into the Liberator's dark dining room to sign their treaties and conventions. As each delegate signed, a band in the patio struck up his national anthem. Halfway through, the electricity faltered, and Uruguay signed by the flickering light of a candelabra...
...vast patio of Buenos Aires' Institute Bernasconi, white-smocked high-school kids lined up in ranks. In 14,300 other public schools across the country, students and teachers snapped to attention before their radios. It was the opening of the school year. In the presence of President Peron and la Señora, the new Secretary of Education, strapping ex-Ambassador to Washington Oscar Ivanissevich, explained the educational philosophy of the new Argentina...
...pressagent told the story, roly-poly Don Vicente Miranda, onetime waiter who now owns Mexico's swankest nightclub, El Patio, lay abed one morning last week and pondered on the world's sad state. Everybody, he decided, was tense and nervous. Then he bounded out of bed with a plan. He would soothe the world with mole, the marvelous Mexican sauce based on chocolate and chile...
Black Ties. There were Argentine lunches, Panamanian drinks, and Mexican decoration ceremonies. There was the opera, with Gigli singing in La Tosca and tiaras sparkling from the boxes. One night Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra gave a state dinner in the palm-lined patio of the neoclassic Itamarati Palace. While a company of 120-the men in black ties and the women in low-cut gowns-nibbled pheasant and sipped champagne, swans glided in a candlelit pool and ballet dancers whirled on a special stage. Ignoring the rain, the ladies seized a lifetime's chance and swept...
...automobile (bearings) made Tin Baron Patio one of the world's five richest men. He moved to Europe, lived like a prince among a fawning nobility that overlooked his cholo beginnings. From Paris, Patiño managed Bolivian politics, elected presidents, juggled Cabinet ministers. He had himself appointed Bolivian Minister to France. Son Antenor married the stately Cristina de Bourbon, niece of dethroned Alfonso XIII of Spain...