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Common Style. Most modern Latin American architecture, whether along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, Caracas' Avenida Bolivar or São Paulo's Avenida Anhangabaú, has a distinctive look. Almost all Latin American architects use combinations of louvers, grills, projecting concrete slabs and movable screens to control the dazzling sunshine; they share a lavish liking for color, usually dramatically set off against sparkling white. There is a dearth of structural steel and timber, so the designers have almost universally turned to reinforced concrete. It is a building medium that can easily become clumsy and heavy, but the Latin Americans...
...will be competing with the U.S. product for South American markets within the next few years. Venezuela has signed a $128 million contract with Italy's Fiat Motor Car Co. to build the country's first big steel plant on the Orinoco River near the big Cerro Bolivar iron ore deposits. To be completed in late 1957, new plant will have an eventual capacity of 421,000 tons of steel annually...
Solidarity among strongmen seemed to be the meeting's theme, but it was tinged with subtle rivalry. The gift that Pérez Jiménez brought was a replica of Simón Bolivar's sword, studded with 860 sapphires-a lavish memento, but also a neat reminder that Peru historically owes its independence to Venezuela's Bolivar. And in any economic comparison, oil-rich Venezuela could lay claim to the more spectacular boom (TIME, Feb. 28). But Peru could also make an impressive boast...
Last week Agustín finally turned the stone over to a government geologist in Ciudad Bolivar. The expert weighed and measured, tested and probed. At length he announced that the Evangelist was 698 carats-of almost pure iron...
...Mississippi, scourged by flood and frost as well as record cotton surpluses, Bolivar County Farm Agent T. Y. Williford reported: "We are probably in as bad shape as when we plowed up cotton in 1933, or even worse...