Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is an exemplary attainment of the goals of the Alliance for Progress, one shudders at the apparent goals. We seem to have here a case, all too common, of looking too much at form and too little at substance. It is indeed true that the Bolivian governors have "obtained electoral reforms and the nationalization of the tin industry, as well as the breaking up of large feudal estates." But of what value are these things, from the standpoint of the masses, if they are worse off than before, if it now costs more to produce Bolivian tin than...
...contrast, Patch spoke briefly on "one of the most conservative of Latin American countries," Peru. He compared the "social mobility" of Bolivian Indians with the rigid class structure of those in the neighboring country...
...Three. Last week, after six months of quiet negotiation, Borgward was finally sold for $14 million-but not to Detroit. The buyer turned out to be Impulsora Mexicana Automotriz, a consortium recently formed by top Spanish Truckmaker Eduardo Barreiros Rodriguez and a covey of Latin American entrepreneurs, including Bolivian Tin King Antenor Patino and Millionaire Mexico City Lawyer Ernesto Santos Galindo...
Married. Jaime Ortiz Patiño, 33, heir to a Bolivian tin fortune; and Nada Takla, 21, a Levantine beauty he met while in Lebanon last summer for a bridge tournament; he for the second time (his first: Manhattan Playgirl Joanne Connelley Sweeny, who died in 1957 while divorce suits were pending); in Geneva...
Maria Teresa was married to President Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1955, having first met him during a post-college stint as an airline hostess. She speaks fluent English and French, is an avid reader in both languages (favorite authors: Graham Greene, Albert Camus), collects paintings by Bolivian artists, is an enthusiastic theatergoer. She is also the hard-working head of the Costurero del Niño (literally, children's sewing box), a charitable organization that distributed clothes to 50,000 underprivileged children last Christmas. For her three daughters, aged three, five, and seven, who have been given a strict...