Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's least reported slaughters in the years since World War II was a senseless, near-civil war between Colombia's dominant Liberal and Conservative parties, which killed more than 300,000 people. Four years ago Liberal Statesman-Politician Alberto Lleras Camargo was elected President under terms of a truce whereby the two factions agreed to alternate the presidency. Though the feud still simmers in the backlands, the truce has done something to unite a divided nation and the coffee-growing country of 14 million is making economic strides...
Begging for the Scraps. For all the squalor, few slum dwellers would return to the farm. Back home in Chile's Andean highlands Alberto Paredes, 26. earned 25? a day working on a hacienda "with only the wind and the animals." Today in Santiago he makes $1.50 a day as a construction helper. "Here I have a radio," says Paredes. A Peruvian mountain couple, German and Aurelia Ortega, are stuck in El Monton (The Pile), a Lima slum of 5,000 people beside a garbage dump. With 14 relatives, they huddle in a dirt-floored hut-its walls made...
...Award Oscar for Two Women at a black-tie do in Rome. Sophia was snubbed by some of Italy's foremost politicians, and the affair had to be canceled. Left-Wing Socialist Pietro Nenni, unhappy that Sophia's sister married a Mussolini, sent his regrets; Entertainment Minister Alberto Folchi, aware that Sophia is living in sin with Producer Carlo Ponti (since bigamy charges brought against Ponti forced them to disavow their 1957 marriage early this year), developed a diplomatic cold. Finally, 1961's best actress had to accept her Oscar at a small reception...
Amid setbacks elsewhere in Latin America, democracy won a signal victory in Colombia. For four years President Alberto Lleras Camargo, a journalist and educator turned statesman, has toiled doggedly for stability, and for enough moderation of age-old political hatreds to permit his nation to haul itself out of the 19th century into the 20th. Next month his term as President ends. Lleras, a Liberal, is seeing to it that his office will be turned over to a Conservative, a man whose party he opposes, but whose right to peaceful succession* he firmly upholds...
Agreeing with Rinkel, Alberto DiMascio, principal investigator at the Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory, emphasized that "such studies be carried out in cooperation with a trained psychiatrist, who should possess as much knowledge as possible about the drug's actions and side effects, and the methods used to alleviate or counteract them in case any emergency should arrive...