Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People & President. The 6,400,000 people of Chile-a mixture of Basque and Catalan stock, with some blend of the original Araucanian Indians-have demonstrable courage and energy. Though outnumbered in an 1879-83 war with Peru and Bolivia, they easily grabbed the copper and nitrate riches of the rainless northern deserts, thus completed the process of making their country so long (2,600 mi.) that if it were magically moved it could serve as a land bridge from Boston to Belfast. Chileans are 90% literate and obstinately democratic, but by a quirk they have elected as their President...
Pennsylvania State University President Milton Eisenhower played host to Bolivia's ebullient Ambassador to the U.S. Victor Andrade, wound up with the envoy awarding him Bolivia's highest civilian decoration in appreciation of Eisenhower's aid to Bolivia in 1953 when he was an emissary to Latin America...
...leftist revolution in 1952, nationalized the big tin mines and energetically pushed the state oil monopoly, formed in 1937 after an earlier government had forced out Standard Oil Co. of N.J. On the face of it, these moves made the chance of new foreign oil investment in Bolivia look dim indeed. Nonetheless, Paz Estenssoro made a hard-boiled decision that Bolivia needed foreign capital, and in 1955 enacted a liberal code for oil operators from abroad. Last week Pittsburgh's Gulf Oil Corp., first big operator to move in, signed a 40-year agreement to search for and produce...
...last week to shake hands with Foreign Minister Walter Guevara. After almost four years of energetic service, Guevara, a longtime sociology professor and an outspoken friend of the U.S., was being forced out. Even more worrisome was the cause of Guevara's fall: a plain left swerve by Bolivia's ruling party, the National Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R...
...hard to believe that the public anywhere in the world underestimates the destructive power of atomic weapons. The dictionaries of all languages have been combed for superlatives to describe the devastation that would ensue from atomic war. Could an observer from Russia or Burma or Bolivia take home a description more impressive than Commissioner Murray's own? In the U.S., physicists, generals and plain men, approaching the new weapons from different angles and at different levels of technical knowledge, all came to conclusions quite similar to Murray's own: that these weapons represent a danger of unprecedented magnitude...