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...four days Mexican Ambassador Octavio Paz scrambled around frantically trying to find hotel rooms (all the big hotels were full), a place to practice, and, above all, transportation to Madras...
...From La Paz to Luxembourg, the mutual fund has turned out to be as exportable a U.S. commodity as Coca-Cola or cowboy movies. And no firm sells mutuals with more vigor than Investors Overseas Services, a Panama-chartered, Switzerland-based company headed by U.S. expatriates that after five years has 20,000 clients in 62 countries. Since its organization in 1956 by Bernard Cornfeld, a pudgy onetime Philadelphia social worker and mutual-fund salesman, I.O.S. has doubled sales every year. This year I.O.S. expects to sell long-term mutual-fund shares and contracts worth $100 million. Profit last year...
Maria Teresa was married to President Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1955, having first met him during a post-college stint as an airline hostess. She speaks fluent English and French, is an avid reader in both languages (favorite authors: Graham Greene, Albert Camus), collects paintings by Bolivian artists, is an enthusiastic theatergoer. She is also the hard-working head of the Costurero del Niño (literally, children's sewing box), a charitable organization that distributed clothes to 50,000 underprivileged children last Christmas. For her three daughters, aged three, five, and seven, who have been given a strict...
Centerpiece of the area is a tile-roofed Spanish-colonial building set in a grove of coconut trees and facing on a gleaming white beach, 22 miles east of La Paz...
...Hilton, son of Hotelman Conrad. Heretofore, the only way an ordinary traveler could get to lower Baja has been by commercial flight or road from Los Angeles to San Diego, where he had to cross the border to Tijuana, then take a three-flights-a-week plane to La Paz, and from there fly to the hotel landing strips by chartered plane. But Mexico's Aeronaves Airlines hopes to run flights to La Paz direct from Los Angeles after June...