Word: argentina
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...Argentina's Alicia Penalba, 43, Best Foreign Sculptor. A former student of Ossip Zadkine in Paris, Sculptor Penalba turns out monumental bronze and stone abstractions that have a considerable range: a cluster of balanced chunks that remotely suggest a huge cactus, a set of rippling spires that seem to move upwards, a hollowed and pierced sculpture that might have been fashioned by the lash...
...news of the private meeting. Argentina's anti-Castro armed forces went up like land mines. The three service secretaries threatened to resign. Frondizi lamely explained that if Kennedy's man Goodwin could talk to Guevara, then he, as President of Argentina, could see him, too, couldn't he? Over TV, he emphasized that his government was Christian, democratic, and committed to the West. Two nights later, he was on TV again saying that Castro "employs procedures which we Argentines reject categorically...
...coypu reached England in 1927 from Argentina, imported by several East Anglian farmers who wanted to cash in on the market for nutria coats. Then one stormy night ten years later, a strong wind blew down the pens on the nutria farm of P.E.T. Carill-Worsley in East Anglia, and some eight animals escaped. The wild coypus in England are descendants of those first escapees...
...conference was a touchy technical issue: how to review each nation's plans and allocate the Alliance for Progress funds. The original suggestion called for a board of seven "wise men" to sit in permanent session. The plan appealed to the small nations, but was violently opposed by Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Chile, who looked upon the board as an attempt to jeopardize their sovereign right to plan their own economic development. Caught in the middle, the U.S. delegation moved quickly to find a compromise, arranged a secret caucus with Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Mexico...
...refuse to join the alliance if the board was included in the plan. But after checking with Buenos Aires,*the Argentine delegates finally agreed to a new compromise: a nine-man board of advisers that could criticize but not act. As the U.S. delegation sat conspicuously in the background, Argentina, Brazil, Chile. Mexico and Peru got to work on the final draft of a proposal officially launching the Alliance for Progress...