Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone who was anyone along the Rome-New York social beat, the place to be last week was the Spoleto Ball at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. The charity affair, to raise money for Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's annual Festival of Two Worlds in the medieval town north of Rome, was capped by a "Parade of the Zodiac" hat show. And there they came, trooping top-heavily across the stage: Actress Joan Fontaine as Aquarius, the Water Bearer; Mrs. Marion Javits, wife of New York Senator Jacob Javits, as Capricorn, the Goat; Justine and Lily Gushing, daughters...
...presidential motorcade, which included representatives of the Boston press and a special press bus for national correspondents, wound its way through downtown Boston to the Sheraton Plaza Hotel on Huntington Ave., where Kennedy spent the night in the Presidential suite. Enthusiastic crowds greeted him along the route...
...Lopez Mateos got advance notification of Kennedy's speech while he was in Manila on his way back from an Asian tour. He put Mexico decisively on the U.S. side. When he returned home two days later, he told a cheering crowd in Mexico City's main plaza: "We are in the lines of democracy. We will fight for peace and liberty." A high government official put Mexico's feelings more informally: "You Americans didn't know how to get Latin American support before. Any country admires guts...
What does the well-dressed skater wear over her leotard this year? Leopard, of course, but not any old spotted cat. On the outdoor skating rink of Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza, raven-haired Model Diane Conlon, 17, fetchingly demonstrated a pale, shaggy snow leopard from the icy reaches of Nepal. And for almost any girl, whether she can skate or not, Diane's pretty partners, modeling for the kick-off campaign of New York's United Hospital Fund, showed that Cambodian tiger, white mink and red nutria also...
...upper-crust Bucks County, with her divorced mother and stepfather. "He's an architect." College? Well. no. "College was just impossible." So after high school she went to work as a girl guide in a Bethlehem Steel plant, and then it was on to New York and the Plaza Five modeling agency...