Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next Latin American chief of state to visit the U.S.: handsome President Galo Plaza Lasso, 45, of Ecuador, head of one of South America's few genuinely democratic regimes. President Plaza will fly north on June 19, be President Truman's guest in Washington for three days, make side trips to New York and California...
...Seoul's City Hall plaza meanwhile, there were polite speeches. A select group of 100 boys & girls cheered and clapped on signal. The policemen handed out small packets of candy and food and the children sang and played for a while on the ragged lawns. Before sundown the party broke up. Parents took their children on the long walk home. The children who had no parents to take them home melted back into their caves and cellars...
...Miami Beach, Racketeer Frank Costello gave a 2½-hour audience to Walter Winchell in a Roney Plaza cabana. Costello thought that big-time gamblers like himself could be driven out of business only by legalizing gambling: abolishing horse races or ball games wouldn't do the trick. "The Weather Bureau says tomorrow will be sunny," explained Costello. "So you're a long-shot guy and you take a price it will rain. Isn't everything in life a gamble...
Jimmy Stewart's cinema version of Harvey runs at the Gramercy, 23rd and Lexington, Sunday through Wednesday and at the Plaza on East 58th starting Monday...
...first stop was to be Mexico City. Greenglass was to send the letter to the Soviet embassy and sign it I. Jackson. " was to wait three days . . ." said Greenglass. "On the third day I was supposed to go into the city and stand in a plaza with a statue of Columbus, at 5 o'clock...