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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...
...Harvard Lampoon has announced the election of its board of officers for 1975: George Rohr '76 of Bogota, Colombia and Quincy House, President; Sanford J. Frank '76 of Springfield and Kirkland House, Treasurer; Mark P. O'Donnell '76 of Cleveland, Ohio and Lowell House, Ibis; Kurt B. Andersen '76 of Omaha, Neb. and Dudley House, Narthex; Charles P. Steinbruegge '76 of Atlanta, Ga. and Lowell House, Sanctum; Richard P. Tierney '76 of Newton and Mather House, Sackbut; Edward L. Trimble '76 of Baltimore and Lowell House, Hautboy; Stephen E. Pollack '77 of Detroit and Quincy House, Advertising Manager; and Sanford...
Streets dividing neighborhoods in Bogota and Lima are lines dividing past and present, and the peasants migrating from the countryside to live in the poblaciones or favelas that surround these cities are re-enacting the demographic changes of 18th century England, when displaced weavers and field laborers streamed into Manchester, Birmingham and London. The crooked spines of the early factory workers are recapitulated in the stooped backs of the Bolivian peasants who carry huge baskets of oranges on their backs. The small farmers of Yorkshire forced off their lands by acquisitive members of the gentry are resurrected in the masses...