Word: bolivares
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...Caldas send several thousand emigrants a year into the Valle del Cauca. The Vallenses themselves prefer the valleys and leave the slopes to the immigrants from the north. To the southeast, Antioquian peasants are settling the virgin mountainsides of Tolima. In the north, they have overflowed into Choco and Bolivar, and control much of Bolivar's cattle industry. Of the 3,000,000 Colombians of Antioquian descent, only 1,300,000 live in Antioquia...
...house which California's Mills College built for him after he went there in 1940, a gloomy Jewish refugee from Vichyfranee. He has taught composition to college girls in the mornings, composed in privacy during the afternoons. In none of his American scores (including an opera called Bolivar, the symphony, five concertos and some chamber music) is there much trace of U.S. influence ("My only influences are French and I remain true to them").* He is now hard at work on a Third Symphony, commissioned by the French National Radio, which he will conduct next October in Paris. What...
Besides Fruehaufs highballing twice daily to Calabozo, Arocha had ten white-painted DC-3s flying chilled beef to the capital from distant llano towns like Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, and San Fernando de Apure. This week work was expected to start on another slaughterhouse at Barinas. Already caraqueños found llano meat in the markets at 27? a Ib. Last spring they had paid three times as much...
...wished the remains of her husband (Quentin's brother) to lie at Ste. Mère-Eglise in Normandy. Said Mrs. George S. Patton: "I feel soldiers should stay where they fall. . . . General Patton . . . would always have wanted to have been buried with his men." Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner, whose husband was killed in action at Okinawa, expressed the same thought. So did Mrs. Clara Jane Hawkins, mother of the Marine lieutenant for whom Tarawa's airfield is named, and the young widow of another Marine hero, Sergeant John Basilone who died...
...Miraflores Palace, under a portrait of the great Bolivar, provisional President Romulo Betancourt worked the livelong day, receiving delegations of idea-bearing citizens, soldiers, sheepish rightists. Even Venezuela's Communists, who had been caught napping, came with offers of peace...