Word: argentina
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...Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead: the 34-nation Canada Cup, emblematic of world golf supremacy, at San Isidro, Argentina. Snead and Palmer took a three-stroke first-round lead, held on to beat Argentina by two strokes. - Underdog Georgia Tech: a 7-6 victory over previously unbeaten. No. 2-ranked Alabama. Tech Fullback Mike McNames intercepted a pass in the second quarter, scored two plays later; Quarterback Billy Lothridge kicked the extra point that handed Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide its first loss in 27 games. Wisconsin mowed down Illinois 35-6. needed only to defeat Minnesota...
Scions of the Times. Little-known out side its homeland, Bunge & Born is the mightiest trading company south of the Equator and one of the biggest in the world. In Argentina, the company and its subsidiaries handle one-quarter of all wheat exports, manufacture 85% of the nation's tin cans, operate the biggest cotton mill and paint factory, and produce a bewildering variety of other products ranging from drugs to cake mixes. And the Argentine operations are only a beginning: with branches in 80 countries, stretching from Switzerland to Japan and dealing in everything from tallow to steel...
...have had it with aristocracies. Corrupt, sleek, lascivious queer or cruel, Italian, French or Spanish, they all amount to the same thing on the screen: vacuity writ large. But the most banal set of all lives in Argentina. Its members are as vapid, unsophisticated and coarse a covey of brightly feathered birds as I have seen in film. Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (director of End of Innocence) records their antics in Summerskin, a cheap and pretentious story in the worst possible taste...
...first time about her bargain with his mother. He shoots himself in despair; she goes to Paris. All these witty antics take place in a seaside retreat as elegant as suburban Miami. At least the Italians have St. Peter's or the Borghese Gardens for a backdrop; in Argentina there are ranch houses and shopping centers. The European haut monde diverts itself with chic and decadent parties, but in Argentina the big money falls back on canasta and TV westerns for its kicks...
...growing populations to work. But the increased currency in circulation is not matched by an equivalent increase in goods for sale. Thus prices climb higher, and the cost of living rises far faster than the world average. In the past five years, the cost of living jumped 212% in Argentina, 158% in Bolivia. 146% in Brazil, 111% in Chile, 133% in Uruguay...