Word: villarrica
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...Chilean towns, from Farellones to Villarrica, share the boom. Yet the new look of the mountains is most exciting at Portillo, the big resort built by the government in 1947 and then almost written off as a total failure. The idea was to provide a setting like something out of an old Sonja Henie film. The international set. though, was not about to travel to the bottom of the world, board a chuffy little train and travel for five hours to the edge of nowhere...
...Paraguayan government, on Argentine urging, got ready to intern the ex-strongman on a ranch near orange-growing Villarrica, 90 miles from the Paraguayan-Argentine border. There Perón was to be confined to a small area and effectively silenced...
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