Word: bolivian
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...bleak and miserable as anywhere in the world. Seeking release from this reality, the impoverished mountain Indians drink so much hard liquor that whole villages are sometimes knocked out for days at a time. The United Nations commission for technical assistance to Bolivia, currently investigating all phases of Bolivian life, has just about decided that drinking is the country's No. 1 social evil, surpassing even the coca-chewing habit...
...Copacabana's handsome square, thousands of Bolivian Indians, the men in grinning masks, the women adorned with sparkling silver belts and jewelry, staged another uproarious carnival. At a border village, scores of Indians were staggering around the patio of a house where a wedding fiesta was in progress. In a room off the patio sat the bride and bridegroom, immobile, glassy-eyed, unable even to speak. "They are seasick," explained a guest...
...foot, running with car wheels and bodies tucked under their arms. To the chagrin of the boys, a girl won. She was Amelia Aparicio, 13, who had averaged 19 miles an hour in a car designed by her mechanic father. Exclaimed Amelia: "I came determined to win for the Bolivian woman...
Having failed to rouse the citizens of La Paz to fight as they did in 1946, the rebels surrendered. Probably 50 had been killed, over 200 wounded in the fighting. Among 400 prisoners were leaders of the Bolivian Confederation of Labor and Sergio Almaraz, the leading Bolivian Communist. At week's end the schoolteachers accepted a flat 10% pay raise (they had originally asked for a sliding scale ranging up to 70%), and the general strike seemed to be broken...
Until a better word comes along to denote that process, the dazzled layman can only call it education. Coca-Cola coolly takes hold of Japanese capitalists, Italian intellectuals, German bureaucrats and Bolivian laborers and trains them to do a series of specific jobs in every move and thought the way they are done in America. What is more, the trainees like...