Word: bogota
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...dignitaries depart, the confetti is swept up, and the trucked-in crowds are trucked back where they came from. But President John Kennedy's three-day foray into Latin America seemed to be leaving a somewhat more lasting imprint. Those who saw him, in Caracas and Bogota, appeared genuinely touched by his charm, his obvious good intentions, his interest in them, and his pretty young wife. But more important, they-and indeed the entire hemisphere-responded to a message he brought...
Jaime Urrutia '63, of Eliot House and Bogota, Colombia, has been elected President of the Advocate. At the same election this week Judith Innes '63, of Boston, was elected Secretary and became the first Radcliffe student named as an officer on the Advocate board...
...teamed up with the Export-Import Bank and the International Monetary Fund to work out loan deals that eased temporary balance-of-payments problems for Brazil, Colombia, Britain, the Philippines, Chile and India. He took an immense interest in Latin American affairs, represented Ike at last September's Bogota conference, which programed the spending of $500 million in U.S. development grants. Dillon's monument was the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-a Marshall Plan successor that now molds the foreign aid programs of the free world. Dillon helped draw up plans for the program, and last December...
...family to attend college. A campus politician, he headed everything from the athletic association to the interdormitory council. Last summer he worked hard to nominate Lyndon Johnson for President in Los Angeles, where he organized Johnson's uproarious airport welcome. This summer, Fulbright Scholar Grimsley heads for Bogota's University of the Andes to study Colombia's political system. His motto: "Not to make millions, but to make millions safe and happy...
...backyard, intervening in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua. Paradoxically, these interventions strengthened the principle of nonintervention. After Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed the Good Neighbor policy, Latin American nations persuaded the U.S. to sign ever-stronger pledges of nonintervention. The Charter of the Organization of American States, drafted at Bogota in 1948, declares that "no State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatsoever, in the internal or external affairs of any other State...