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...little misunderstanding. And the angel has not a flaming sword but only love to offer them. As she starts barefoot after them, old Alfred whines and the angel tells him "Bad karma Alfred. You stay." He comes though, lacing himself in her footsteps all the way down the first barranca. The angel kicks him. Alfred howls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...good deal for both the country and the company. International keeps a slice of the profits for at least ten years more. Colombia got De Mares, together with its 1,030 wells and its other installations (including the refinery at Barranca Bermeja), without paying a centavo. Also, the Colombian government showed the world's oilmen that it is willing to do business fair & square-a good thing for Colombia, which needs foreign capital and know-how to help get its oil out of the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Good Deal | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...China National Aviation Corp. DC-3 with 18 people aboard was long overdue on a flight to Chungking. In Colombia, another DC-3 airliner with 17 aboard disappeared on a flight to the Barranca Bermeja oilfields from Bogota. The bodies of four crew members and $2,000,000 in gold were recovered from a Philippine Airlines plane which crashed at Hong Kong. At Croydon Airport near London, twelve of 23 passengers were killed when another DC-3 crashed on takeoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Interrupted Plans | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...Venezuela and Colombia, Standard has several air ambulances to whisk emergency cases from the field to hospitals. Between Barranca and El Centro, Colombia, it operates a unique rail ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medical Good Neighbor | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Taxco clings to the sharp slope of a barranca on the side of a bleached mountain 75 miles southwest of Mexico City. It looks like a miniature of Toledo in Spain; it is erroneously thought of in the U.S. as Mexico's Provincetown; and it has become by its recent development of exquisite silver crafts Mexico's Florence. Taxco is a tired old gambler of a town that has had just three brief runs of luck in 500 years. Last week the 4,500 Taxquenos, the President and Foreign Minister of the Republic and some 5,000 visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Fiesta at Taxco | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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