Word: santos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During the bidding, an anonymous Californian bid $5,000 for a case of rare Inglenook wine from the Napa Valley, by far the highest price ever paid for domestic produce. New York Restaurateur Joseph Santo paid $12,100 for a 55-case collection of French, German and American wines, which until recently was reserved by Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel for the exclusive sipping of visiting Presidents. After the headlining items had been displayed by a brocaded, powder-wigged chamberlain and sold, connoisseurs and individual collectors were able to bid on the less celestial vintages: a case...
...LUIS RODRÍGUEZ VILLANCAÑAS Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Along Calle el Conde, a once fashionable shopping street in Santo Domingo, business was at a near-standstill last week. In the Ciudad Nueva district of the capital, once known as "the Kremlin" because of all the middle-class boys who grew up to be radicals there, posters coated the trees. Evenings, cinemas throughout the city were all but empty and streets were deserted before midnight-the traditional time for political murders. Once again the Dominican Republic was facing the test of presidential elections, and as usual, violence played a leading role. In the three weeks before the balloting...
...imagination and concentrating on showcase projects instead of attacking basic problems such as poverty, educational shortcomings and land reform. In reply, Balaguer pointed to his record since his election in 1966, after the U.S. intervention. "Everything I promised has been accomplished," he said, "with the exception of museums in Santo Domingo and Santiago de los Caballeros." To win voters' loyalty, Balaguer hands out gifts at every campaign stop: new shoes, bolts of cloth, caps and 5-and 1-peso notes. It was an old-fashioned campaign typical of the man-a stodgy bachelor who neither smokes nor drinks...
Died. Héctor Garcia Godoy, 49, Dominican diplomat and politician, a candidate for President in the May 16 elections in his troubled Caribbean nation; of a heart attack; in Santo Domingo. A moderate leftist, Garcia Godoy rose to prominence in 1965 as provisional President following a bitter civil war and subsequent U.S. military occupation. Though received with suspicion by both the right and the left, he proved an able conciliator and for ten months kept the country together until it was possible to hold free elections...