Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dancing in the Wind. One evening last fortnight, a wandering TIME correspondent found the whole population of San Pedro, on Lake Titicaca, dancing in the waterfront plaza. Nobody seemed to notice the icy winds whistling off the lake. The mayor and all the other officials were looping. The only sober man in town was the innkeeper, a young Croat refugee...
...Puno, on the Peruvian side of the lake, 2,000 garishly dressed Indians, many of them barefoot, were drinking and dancing in the biting cold. All around the town plaza shops did a roaring business selling chicha, cane alcohol or beer...
...blown nude stood nearly seven yards tall in her bare feet. But with his biggest booster gone, Thorak found his reputation had already shrunk to less than life size. The public sniffed at his glibly traditional sculpture, complained that his 12-foot Paracelsus (1940), intended for the local railway plaza, was not worthy of Salzburg...
...hitch occurred when the vehicle that was to bear the reliquary to Rome arrived at Orvieto. It was an ordinary closed moving van. The people gathered in the plaza complained that this was not good enough for their relic. They muttered that the reliquary should be taken to Rome in a truck with a glass top and sides, so that all the countryside could see it and realize what a great sacrifice they, the people of Orvieto, had made...
Ever since the Depression caught U.S. hotelmen overexpanded, they have been chary of risking money on new hotels. In 20 years, only three big new hotels have gone up: Cincinnati's Terrace Plaza, Washington's Statler, Houston's Shamrock...