URUGUAY: Southern Comfort

URUGUAY Southern Comfort

With a gala dinner dance attended by 300 members of Uruguay's most select society, the glittering new Victoria Plaza hotel opened for business in Montevideo this week. Designed for American tourists and businessmen, North or South, the 22-story, 400-room hotel is the fifth link in a $50 million Latin American hotel chain being put together by the Intercontinental Hotels Corp., a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways.

The guests found the Victoria Plaza equipped with every convenience the most demanding tourist could expect: airconditioning, the continent's fastest elevators (710 ft....

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