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Pinched for cash, the world's richest nation has often come off second best. At last year's fair in Bogota, Colombia, the U.S. spent less than $500,000 (v. $1,500,000 for the joint Czech-East German pavilion), had to resort to an unimpressive display of photographs to picture the abundant U.S. in action. But fair planners in the Department of Commerce have learned to stretch their dollars by leaning heavily on private business to contribute products, exhibits and top executives to the trade missions at the fairs. They have also learned that commonplace U.S. gadgets...
...Latin American countries. During Costa Rica's 1948 revolt against its pro-Communist government, six Red goons worked Dubois over with rifle butts. A month later, while covering a revolution in Colombia, Dubois phoned a blow-by-blow story to the Trib from a room in Bogota's presidential palace while insurgents fought in the corridors. Later, to get his own and fellow newsmen's copy to a cable office, Dubois ran a gauntlet of machine-gun fire. "He's absolutely unafraid," says Tribune Managing Editor Don Maxwell. "He scares us with the situations he gets...
Last week Luis Andrade went to the Claretian monastery in the town of Bosa, near Bogotaã for services marking his entrance into the novitiate. After the ceremony he had a last chat with old political friends. Then, taking the name Brother Anselmo, Luis Ignacio Andrade, 63, turned and climbed a flight of stairs to Cell No. 23. Later he will serve a two-year novitiate in Rome, where he was once the Colombian Ambassador to the Holy See. After that he will become a missionary, probably in the Far East...
...South American by birth. Sert came to the United States in 1939. He has had extensive experience in long-range planning, having designed the master plans for the cities of Lima, Peru; Medellin, Cali, and Bogota, Colombia...
...measures. To get the trade debt paid, he fired the unlucky Minister of Finance who had sanctioned excessive military purchases, and sent into the job a bright young banker named Luis Morales Gomez. In an earnest television speech, the President denied any undue enrichment in office. The press in Bogota is freer than it has been in years. The assembly has duly debated. And the offending Third Force was unceremoniously junked, pleasing Cardinal Luque, who says: "Our relations with the government are cordial-for the time being...