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...first time in five months the sun melted the leaden skies over Bogota, Colombia, when Adlai Stevenson arrived on his South American tour. "Viva Democracy! Viva Adlai, Adlai, Adlai, Adlai !" roared crowds of Colombians as they flocked to Stevenson and his party, some for mixed motives: both Son John Fell Stevenson and ex-Senator William Benton lost their wallets to pickpockets. At a bullfight, where Stevenson was cheered the loudest, Matadors Luis Miguel Dominguín and Pepe Caceres dedicated their bulls to him. At a cocktail party Stevenson charmed the guests by bringing along Dominguín. Gushed...
...Boring into Miami International Airport in broad daylight en route from New York International Airport to Bogota, Colombia, an Avianca Super Constellation had trouble with its No. 3 engine, went back to the line for repairs. Finally, in the air ten hours behind schedule, the Constellation touched down at fashionable Montego Bay, Jamaica at 2:35 a.m., skidded off the runway when its left landing gear collapsed, flipped over and burst into flames. Dead: 37, burned alive hanging upside down in their seat belts or struggling to get out. Safe: four crewmen who scrambled out of the pilots' compartment...
...year later in Bogota, Colombia, Castro was involved in a student congress which had a core of well-organized Communists. The congress issued a protest against American policies. There can be no doubt that Castro then had anti-American, if not Communist sentiments...
...Colombians live in hunger, another 6,000,000 barely manage to cling to the lower fringes of an adequate living standard, while an elite 4.6% of the population has 40% of the national income. Spearheaded by a small but boisterous band of Communists and abetted by students, Bogota's hungry took to the streets in March to protest a bus-fare increase from 1.87? to 3?. For hours, they pelted soldiers with stones and curses...
...Spanish-language business-news magazine that is flown into 19 Latin American countries. Visão (circ. 45,886), a sister publication to Visión, is a Portuguese-language news weekly in Brazil. In addition, the company has a half interest in Semana, a news weekly published in Bogota, Colombia, owns the profitable business-pamphleteering ("Just Between Office Girls") National Foremen's Institute...