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Caracas 150 Guatmala City 103 Santiago 95 Teheran 92 Baghdad 92 Montreal 92 Mexico City 91 Paris 90 New Delhi 90 Manila 89 Beirut 86 Bogotá Lima 84 Geneva 82 London 82 Buenos Aires 82 Rome 81 Karachi 81 Istanbul 76 Vienna 75 Rabat 75 The Hague 73 Rio de Janeiro 71 Copenhagen 70 Cairo 62 The U.N.'s survey was based on the experience of its own civil servants, who live on middling but tax-free incomes; thus the figures reflect not the cost of living of native citizens but that of foreigners living on foreign incomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: Cairo, Anyone? | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...shouts and shoving, mostly against the U.S. So, right on schedule, it came to pass. In Moscow, well-organized throngs marched on the U.S. embassy to toss inkpots and rocks; they were easily kept from getting really riotous by a phalanx of Soviet militiamen. In Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, La Paz, Caracas, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, unruly mobs of students and workers milled in the streets and battled with police and one another. In Tokyo, left-wing students and Communists stormed around the U.S. embassy. In Egypt, Nasser-organized squads of yelling youths tried to storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sympathy & Dismay | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...Cuban invasion fell apart, the sympathy and understanding gave way to dismay and plain disgust. "Bad show," said the London Daily Mail-"a shocking blow to American prestige." British cartoonists smirked in print. Said a saddened government official in Bogotá: "The United States should not have allowed the invasion to start unless the chances of success were good." And Masaji Inoue, 31, a Tokyo office worker, mirrored the feeling of much of the free world: "America seems to have messed things up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sympathy & Dismay | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...Archbishop Luis Concha Córdoba, 69, of Bogotá, Colombia, was born to a powerful and cultured family (his father was President of Colombia from 1914 to 1918). A shy, modest man, Archbishop Concha Córdoba is recognized to be an able administrator with a forward-looking viewpoint that makes him trusted by the Liberals-Colombia's majority political party, which favors separation of church and state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Four New Hats | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...horseback and on foot, 300 Colombian peasants in ponchos and floppy felt hats trekked through the jungles and coffee fincas to a settlement in the Andean backlands 25 miles outside Bogotá. The men carried leaflets: "Viva the organized masses!" A Red caudillo, Víctor Julio Merchán, delivered a welcoming harangue, and the stubble-bearded troop responded with a clenched-fist salute. From an equally isolated redoubt not far to the east, a second Red band, commanded by Juan de la Cruz Varela, peddled at gunpoint 1 peso coupons bearing Lenin's picture and the appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Backlands Bolshevism | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

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