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Like an efficient hostess, Colombia is preparing well ahead of time for the ninth Pan American Conference, scheduled tentatively for December. A primary move has been to rid Bogotá's streets of beggars, which last week were strangely free of the lame and the halt-result of a preconference roundup...
...Bogotá beggars are efficient, too. They avoid jurisdictional disputes by an agreement allotting favorite spots (church doors, hotels, markets), have a system of renting children to childless professionals...
...Bogotá's beggars have yet to reach the imaginative heights of the Chilean beggar who carried a closed coffin on his shoulders through Santiago streets, asking alms to bury his dead child. Prying police found pesos in his pockets, no corpse in the coffin...
South above the green Magdalena River Valley droned a big four-motored DC-4 on one of the world's most famed time-saving runs; by boat or train it is four days from steamy, coastal Barranquilla to highland Bogotá, by air 2¼ hours. This run had the usual vanload of time-savers -49 passengers (including five U.S. businessmen) plus a crew of four...
...Bogotá the airport radio operator for the airline (Avianca, a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways) received a routine message: the DC-4 was 30 minutes out, would soon ask for landing instructions. For several hours there was no more. Then came a message from upcountry. Thirty miles north of the field, Avianca's DC-4 nad crashed into the vertical, cloud-shrouded face of Mt. Tablazo. a 9,000-foot peak in the Sierra Sabana range. Then it fell flaming, 1,000 feet into the ravine below. The DC-4's 53 were dead...