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...been listening to his children practicing Christmas carols and "they don't sound quite right in hot weather." He figured on eating the turkey cold and taking a swim after dinner. For the traditional Christmas eggnog, the William Whites, in Rio de Janeiro, are substituting mint juleps. Our Bogotá correspondent, Jerry Hannifin, says he is going to spend the day alligator hunting. In Mexico City, Bureau Chief John Stanton had no worries beyond a slight apprehension over the fate of his children's toys (their Mexican playmates won't get theirs until...
...Mexico, Colombia and Bolivia, which had led the agitation for a hemispheric Marshall Plan, would benefit hardly at all. Brazil had only coffee and cotton textiles to offer. These were the countries that had cried loudest for U.S. development loans, and would be heard from again at the Bogotá conference next March...
Almost everyone agreed that Jan. 17 would be a poor time to open the Inter-American Conference at Bogotá (TIME, Nov. 17). The U.S. would be deeply involved in Marshall-Planning; its first-string team of diplomats, Senators and Congressmen would be too busy with Europe to think about Latin America. Latin Americans wanted to be sure that their pleas for economic aid would be heard by the right ears. Besides, the diplomats still had a lot to do before they were ready for the conference business of strengthening the hemisphere system...
Nowhere did this action meet with greater approval than in Bogotá itself, where Bogotanos had despaired of having their mountain capital spic & span for the January meeting. For seven months, 500 men had been on the job from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., refurbishing the century-old Capitolio Nacional, where the sessions will be held. Behind locked doors, Artist Martinez Delgado painted until 2 a.m. on a fresco depicting Bolivar's inauguration in 1821. The block-long Ministry of Government building on the Avenida Jiménez de Quesada was only half-scoured, the cleaned marble and sandstone...
...Bogotá's sober, influential El Tiempo spoke the Colombian mind: "Never has the country been in such a trance, and it is all due to the impact of the conference. We hope that March won't find us as January was going to catch...