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...little like asking a two-pack-a-day man to give up smoking. In Argentina, beef belt of the hemisphere, the country's 30 biggest packinghouses urged President Arturo Illia to institute meat rationing. Otherwise, they warned, exports will drop, many meat packers will close, and 60,000 workers will be out of work. Ironically, the trouble is that 1963 was a banner year for Argentine beef exports; slaughterhouses worked overtime, and farmers thinned out their herds. Now they are trying to build up their cattle stocks again, and in a land where 21 million people eat an average...
Getting Poorer. The conference's moving force and secretary-general is Argentina's German-descended Dr. Raul Prebisch, 62, who recently jetted to more than 20 capitals, from Canberra to Moscow, to win support for the conference from governments and business leaders. Last week, in a 165-page report, he outlined the problems and proposals that the Geneva conference will tackle...
...though only survey courses of Western Europe were available at Harvard, with the University protesting that a more specific study of the varied languages and cultures within that area was not important enough to merit the student's individual attention. There is no undergraduate course on Mexico, Argentina, Chile, or even Brazil alone. As to courses studying specific aspects of a particular nation--something taken for granted in the study of Europe--Harvard is years and years away...
...while a relatively imposing dwelling thrusts above the squalid huts. But no major Latin American city has been able to cope with the ever-growing demands for housing. At least 400,000 new low-cost urban housing units are needed in Venezuela, 400,000 in Chile, 500,000 in Argentina...
...Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy himself. Eventually, Edwin Martin was made Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He served until President Johnson, in his first major appointment, returned Mann to the job he had left nearly three years before and sent Martin off as ambassador to Argentina...