Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guards got busy with spit and polish, ceremonial banquet tables were laid. Reason: a merry-go-round of formal state visits by Latin American chiefs of government. The President of Venezuela visited Lima in June,, and next week the President of Peru will return the courtesy. The President of Bolivia went to Santiago in February, is expected to visit Bogota in September. The President of Chile will visit Bolivia this month. President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia landed in Ecuador last week for chats with his neighbor, President Velasco Ibarra...
OILMAN GLENN MCCARTHY, onetime king of the wildcatters, has found backers for his comeback attempt in Bolivia (TIME, May 16). A group of investors headed by Manhattan Rug Importer Robert Keljikan has put up $4,160,000 for a 50% interest in McCarthy's Bolivian oil field near Villa Montes, where he has already brought in two wells, one oil, one gas. McCarthy's forecast: between 35 and 45 wells in production, with 5,000 bbls. daily, within 17 months...
...heart of a 970,000-acre oil concession, deep in the green hell of Bolivia's Gran Chaco Province. McCarthy has found a promising oil and gas field, there drilled three wells. The problem is to get the oil out. With his fresh money, McCarthy plans to build a feeder pipeline, tie in with a Bolivian pipeline recently completed to within 15 miles of his properties. Said McCarthy, as cocky as ever: "I want to speed things up down there. There's enough oil there to build bigger and better Shamrocks...
...BOLIVIA. A hospital, six schools, three dispensaries, a home-visiting program...
...orare," said St. Benedict (work is prayer). The Maryknoll sister hacking a kitchen garden out of the Bolivian jungle is living a prayer. And prayer is work. The cloistered contemplative rising at midnight to sing the psalms of the Divine Office is working for her fellow men-in Bolivia or The Bronx-whom she may never see. One prayer without the other would fall to the ground...