Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Antenor Patiño, 65, head of what was once the richest of Bolivia's tin baronies, agreed in principle to a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...
Cause of the reluctant U.S. switch was a clever Kremlin ploy. Returning from a Communist-subsidized trip to Moscow 18 months ago, a Bolivian professor brought news that the Soviets would be pleased to provide Bolivia with a smelter to refine its own tin ore. Last September Khrushchev buttonholed a Bolivian diplomat at a Manhattan cocktail party to make the offer again, and the pressure became too great for Bolivia to refuse...
...import large quantities of costly British coke to refine its relatively low-grade (30%) ore. It would put Bolivia in competition with the international tin cartel, thousands of expensive miles from potential markets. Bolivia would have to accept platoons of Soviet "technicians" and go through with the first Russo-Bolivian exchange of diplomats in history...
Married. Antenor Patino, 65, Bolivian tin tycoon, one of the world's richest men, who chased (1954) his daughter to Edinburgh, spread money at all levels, from cab drivers to lawyers, in a celebrated but futile effort to prevent her marrying Londoner Michael Goldsmith; and Italian Countess Beatriz di Rovasenda, 47; both for the second time; in London...
...President Calvin Coolidge, who tried to get him to go in a cruiser, because "it would not cost so much"). His reception in Buenos Aires was so tumultuous that the Argentine President had his tailcoat ripped up the back. Hoover also journeyed into Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, met Bolivian government chiefs on a U.S. warship in the Pacific, was the target of an abortive bomb plot by anarchists in Argentina. During his trip. Hoover coined the historic phrase "good neighbors," and later he speeded the end of U.S. armed intervention in Latin America...