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...sitting in a booth at El Torito. I am nursing a margarita, Dad's got a bottle of beer, and the Mexican food will arrive soon. This has become a ritual for us, eating out three times a week, since we sold Dad's house in Texas and moved him to California a year ago at age 83. "Kick 'em!" he says, and we clink our glasses and connect--more than we ever connected before. Since Mom died more than two years ago, we hug and kiss--things we never did when I was growing...
...world, I see lots of old men in worse condition, half crazy, living on the streets, abandoned by their families. I don't loathe my dad anymore. I cry a lot. Sitting down to a margarita and a beer (nonalcoholic these days) at El Torito with him again recently, I felt forlorn and, oddly enough, lucky too. Lucky to have discovered late in life how to love all over again. I only wish he could understand the wonderful gift he's given...
Larry Cano, 58, has also cashed in on the Mexican craze. A World War II veteran who was once a bartender, Cano opened the first El Torito restaurant in Southern California in 1954. He had 22 eateries by the time WR. Grace & Co. bought him out in 1976 for 450,000 shares of Grace stock, worth about $17.5 million at current prices. At Grace, Cano is president of El Torito-La Fiesta Restaurants (1981 sales: $150 million); he has expanded the division into a 90-unit operation with restaurants strung from Tacoma, Wash., to Tampa. Up to 15 will...
...hard-charging Mexican chains have carefully catered to regional tastes as they have grown. W.R. Grace's El Torito goes so far as to grind its beef in Southwestern cities like Houston and Dallas and to shred it in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where diners prefer it that way. Says Anwar Soliman, executive vice president for Grace's restaurant group: "You have to look at all these subtleties. It's critical in some places, particularly the Midwest." Soliman predicts that Mexican restaurants will double their business by 1985. Many others are bullish as well...
...what they were parading for few seemed to know. Told to shout, they shouted Viva Irigoyen! Viva La Dictadura!* till they were hoarse, then varied the monotony by reviving century-old civil war tocsins: "Death to the Unitarian Savages! Long Live the Holy Federation!" A few wags cheered "El Torito de Matadoros," champion Argentine Boxer Justo Suarez, now attached to the Argentine consulate in Manhattan. Five anti-Irigoyenistas ploughed through the crowd, fired a score of shots which brought down Parader Manuel Varela. At week's end no other signs of revolution were evident. President Irigoyen was furious...
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