Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automobile fed the prosperity; output rose to a peak of 42,286 tons in 1912-at prices that hit $3 a lb. In the jungle, the rubber barons enslaved Indians and immigrants, drove them so hard that 300,000 died; a 230-mile railroad, built to carry rubber from Bolivia, cost 70 lives a mile to build. In Manaus, the rubber tycoons built mansions and watched Pavlova dance in a $10 million opera house. Then England's Henry Wickham smuggled rubber tree seeds to London's Kew Gardens and on to the Far East, where efficient plantations broke...
...mechanical majority." As Mexican Delegate Luis Padilla Nervo puts it, "the Latin Americans do not follow instructions from anybody except their own governments." Compared to the Soviet bloc, which votes solid on every question, Latin America is ruggedly independent. In 1957, for example, Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and Bolivia disagreed with the U.S. more than half the time...
...preparatory period by faithful Catholics of daily Mass and special instructions in church doctrine. Dedicated by their governments to the Sacred Heart: Ecuador (the first, in 1873), Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Peru, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Malta and the Philippines. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart: Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ireland, Belgium and Spain...
...powder, and fresh snow at night to top it off. Last week the biggest crowds in history were strapping skis together in Buenos Aires and bracing themselves for a clattery two days on the train or six hours on a plane for their share of Christies. In Bolivia, young skiers jammed into the two lodges at the three-mile-high Chacaltaya ski area. But nowhere was the Andes ski boom growing faster than in Chile, as the crowds bundled aboard trains, buses, open trucks and even motor scooters, bound for the ski towns that dot the western Andes...
AFTER TIME did a cover story six weeks ago on Massachusetts Investors Trust's Dwight Robinson, the result was, says Robinson, "an avalanche!" Into M.I.T.'s Boston headquarters poured letters from every U.S. state, as well as Bolivia, India, Spain, Kenya, Mozambique-65 countries in all. Last week the avalanche was still rumbling...