Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These antique jars and bottles (each with fitted glass stoppers) have been on sale for less than a year, and already over 6,000 people have written for information from all over the world. Some became wedding presents in Bogota, others were acquired for the permanent collections of the Sandwich Glass Museum and The Corning Museum of Glass. Thirty are being set in wood plaques for a Pennsylvania glass firm, while another went to London with Agassiz's great-great-great grandson. Most of them, of course, simply become treasured mementos of the great age of Cambridge glassmaking, and remainders...
...overt and $5 million covert." The first half was from the Agency for International Development, he explained, and the second half was from the CIA, largely to help Eduardo Frei beat Marxist Salvador Allende in the next presidential election. Vekemans, who has now shifted his base of operations to Bogota, refused to give his version of the tale last week...
Like Sir Basil, today's salesmen sometimes try to fill their order books by playing one nation against the other. "What I like doing," admitted a European arms salesman visiting Colombia, "is selling one weapon here in Bogota and then going off to Caracas to sell them the antidote." The most successful modern practitioners of this ploy seem to be the fleet-footed French, who first sold the Exocet antiship missile to Peru's leftist dictatorship in 1973, then leaked the news to neighboring Chile, whose rightist leaders became so jittery that they too bought the missile...
...Until last November, Ed Bogota, 30, was earning more than $25,000 a year as trust investment manager in the Manhattan office of the Corning Glass Works. Abruptly, his job was abolished. "I got caught in cost cutting," he explains. BOgota is willing now to take a 15% reduction in salary. But with jobs scarce in the investment field, he acknowledges that "it is a matter of luck taking it from here...
...people had been killed and 300 wounded in two days and a night of fighting and demonstrating. The rioting at times had been so fierce that some Latin American diplomats dubbed it el Limazo, a reference to the bloody riots known as el Bogotazo. which took place in Bogota, Colombia, 27 years...