Word: sra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SRA FERNANDO BERCKEMEYER. American-born Claribel Berckemeyer, the stately, attractive wife of Peru's ambassador, offers French cuisine, fine wines and lively parties at a palatial embassy set on 25 wooded acres in Chevy Chase. She and Fernando, a wealthy aristocrat who went to Notre Dame but speaks with a British accent, often entertain younger members of the New Frontier-the Bobby Kennedys, the Paul Fays-and the guests sometimes form conga lines or twist...
...SRA. ANTONIO CARRILLO FLORES. When Diego Rivera painted the beautiful wile of Mexico's ambassador, he left her feet bare to emphasize her ' peasant origins." Her parties, attended by the Lyndon Johnsons, Cabinet-level officials and State Department specialists, display a kind of native vitality-featuring mariachi musicians from Mexico City, a table laid with tortillas, black beans and tangy beef, evenings of guitar playing. Carrillo Flores, a full-blooded Tarascan Indian whose father was the 19th child of illiterate parents, made $100,000 a year as a lawyer-and economist, took something like...
...SRA. SERGIO GUTIERREZ-OLIVOS The wife of Chile's newly arrived ambassador scored well with a novel form of entertainment. She and her husband, a former law school dean, worked up a month-long "Image of Chile" program, lured more than 300 diplomats and officials, including the Bobby Kennedys, the Johnsons, the Arthur Schlesingers Jr., to hear performers like Pianist Claudio Arrau and Felicia Montealegre, Leonard Bernstein's actress wife, who recited Chilean poetry...