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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...natural haven for Latin American leftists of all degrees. Che fitted right in. His closest friend was a plump, almond-eyed young Peruvian girl named Hilda Gadea, an ardent, exiled member of Apra, Peru's leftist revolutionary movement. Hilda lent Che money to pay his room rent, kept him fed. For a while he peddled encyclopedias, then got a minor job in Guatemala's agrarian-reform program...
...landed in Hollywood with a little money, less English and no job. For several weeks he lived in an empty ladies' room at the Chateau Marmont ("Just me and six small toilets"), then shared the digs of a Berlin buddy named Peter Lorre. Rent...
Although milder American pop music was played in Germany even during the Nazi years, jazz as such was suppressed by the Nazis as "art/remder Niggerjazz"; in Frankfurt a few musicians used to rent boats and row back into the swampland along the Rhine to hold their jam sessions. Postwar jazz in Germany was fostered by U.S. Army bands and the Armed Forces Network, and there are now about 50 professional German combos and roughly 1,000 amateur jazz bands, many of them on high school and college campuses. Other amateurs play in abandoned bomb shelters or in the "jazz-houses...
...Irish immigrant family of eight, he quit school in St. Louis after the fifth grade to help with the family finances, got into real estate when he was 28 by buying a drug store, soon began building neighborhood stores, paying off his mortgages with the rent. He shocked conservative operators by building apartment houses behind his store buildings; they said that people would not live in "back alleys." But Corrigan found that his tenants liked the shopping convenience, ever since has tried to build shopping centers into every development...
Cars & Roads. More than 250,000 Americans will buy and rent cars to see Europe, pay $50 per day for chauffeur-driven Cadillacs and $16 per day for Volkswagen buses. Cars can be rented through the American Automobile Association and from Hertz and Avis in advance, or from firms on the Continent, which have rates about $1 per day cheaper- $2.50 per day for a Volkswagen, plus 5? per kilometer (.6 of a mile) and gas. Roads are good except in Spain, Portugal, Yugoslavia, and behind the Iron Curtain. European gas prices are still exorbitant by U.S. standards, average...