Word: calied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their steep slopes, then runs placidly northward through a balmy (average temperature 78°), verdant valley. The Cauca Valley, twelve miles wide and 125 miles long, is the country's most bounteous food producer-bananas, sugar, potatoes, coffee, rice, beef, milk. Its center is the warmhearted city of Cali, whose 500.000 inhabitants manage to combine plenty of industrial zip (in tires, leather, drugs, textiles) with a pleasant, semitropical way of life that still reserves the time from noon to 2:30 for lunch and siesta. Yet the valley's people believe its development has hardly begun; last week...
Concrete Commitment. Two years ago Cali industrialists persuaded the government to invite David Lilienthal, onetime chairman of TVA, down for a look, and frankly tapped their guest for advice and know-how. Serving willingly (and without fee), Lilienthal briefly studied the valley and recommended the creation of a developmental agency. Since then, the Cauca Valley Corp., working closely with a mission from the World Bank, has been gathering the engineering data needed to fix its own goal and methods. The objective, as finally visualized, became nothing less than a quick and dramatic boost in the standard of living...
...American high schools in the Colombian cities of Bogotá, Barranquilla and Cali, run by U.S. and Colombian Protestants, are among the country's best. But henceforth, Roman Catholic parents who send children to the American schools will be liable to excommunication. Crisanto Cardinal Luque warned them of the church's extreme penalty in a pastoral letter read last week to Colombia's 11 million Catholics...
...themselves. Since the end of World War II, when TIME'S international editions succeeded the special wartime editions for the armed forces abroad, our editorial offices have become a magnet for foreign journalists. They have come to us from, among other places, Helsinki and Karachi, Turin and Cali...
CABAL AMADOR Cali, Colombia