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FORTNIGHT -
MAN'S FEET
Here's man pacing the floor of the Neiman-'-arcus
store in Dallas, looking for the U-S Ambassador fromB&livia.
The costume is Peruvian, and the man is
H. M. Menchaca, the mayor from> , Peru. He and
representatives of all ten South American countries
are in Dallas for today's opening of the Neiman-Marcus "South American Fortnight."
Menchaca is paid
by the store to do nothing but dress like a native
and lend authenticity to the store program -- a deal
that has even the South American parrots talking.
The specialty store has two annual fortnights before
- this one -- a French Fortnight two years ago, and
last year a British Fortnight. As in the past, the
store has made money no object, bringing in official.honoredaintry,
from the-and decorating the down-
town Neiman's store in the scheme of, this year,
South America. Besides the cultural gain which the
fortnight is expected to realize, the venture helpsf
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Fortnight], script, October 19, 1959; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc860914/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.