Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five holdovers. They were, he said glumly, designated "in accord with the feelings of the national armed forces." With the new Cabinet came a new Seguridad chief. Significantly, he was a colonel, which in effect gave the army control of Seguridad. Almost at once, 300 youths surged into downtown Plaza Silencio, staged a window-smashing demonstration for liberty for political prisoners. But even before the demonstration the new Seguridad chief freed the five jailed priests...
...study in the artful fusion of sparkling glass, glazed brick and gleaming metal, the long, low, U-shaped group faces a landscaped plaza decorated with colored fountains and lit by a splendid illuminating system. Into the passenger buildings are packed modern supermarket-like facilities to speed travelers on their way: escalators to carry passengers from floor to floor, 32 special customs check-out counters to which passengers wheel their luggage in marketlike pushcarts, enclosed arcades that enable passengers of each overseas flight to go through the port without getting mixed up with domestic passengers. Around the new terminal buildings will...
...terrible enfant who ever tried to use two sticks of French bread as a pair of skis. Eloise, as thousands of half-horrified, half-fascinated readers know by now, is the child (she is six, well past the age of dissent) who resides more or less alone at the Plaza in New York, subsisting on Room Service, while Mother is off being divorced, or remarried, or something. Eloise has authorized Nightclub Comedienne and occasional Author Kay Thompson to write her biography. Two years ago the first installment, titled Eloise, was a whirlaway bestseller, and this sequel spun into its second...
...book opens, the Plaza is shaken to the roots of its potted palms because Eloise and her downtrodden Nahnee are summoned to Paris by Mother for a holiday "to get roses in our cheeks." Somehow Eloise manages to cross the Atlantic ("Actually the pilot has nothing to do, so you can help him count the comets'') with 37 pieces of luggage, including two cans of kippers. Once in Paris, Eloise finds the possibilities unlimited, and her range may be gathered from this memorable confession: "I toujours tweak the Apollo Belvedere whenever I leave the Louvre...
...Porter), or to turn that strange little porcelain convenience in the hotel bawthroom into a private swimming pool for one's favorite turtle. The fun has worn a little thin by the time Eloise takes Nahnee, the turtle and her collection of champagne corks back to the Plaza, where Room Service is ever so happy to have her back. All in all, though, she is a magnificent moppet-une brat magnifique, as she might...