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...Congress considered an extraordinary item: $2,000,000 for the Instituto Agronômico do Norte. The item is extraordinary not only because it is more than three times as large as ever before, but because it is a $2,000,000 vote of confidence in one man, Felisberto Camargo...
...Camargo is a 61-year-old professor of agriculture who has a program for turning 40% of Brazil from a liability into an asset. For seven sweat-soaked years, he has labored in the steaming valley of the Amazon, that lush jungle which is more than four times as large (1,175,000 square miles) as the state of Texas...
...Final Answer. The hemisphere got a joint military staff committee, a system for compulsory arbitration of legal disputes, an economic and social council. Henceforth a hundred unrelated activities-hemispheric postal union, sanitary conventions, cultural institutes-would be coordinated under Secretary General Alberto Lleras Camargo in Washington. At last an integrated system existed, on paper...
Among Latin representatives: Pan American Union's Director Alberto Lleras Camargo, working on his home field (he is a Bogotano), Argentina's Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia, Brazil's ex-Foreign Minister Joao Neves da Fontoura, Mexico's Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet. They did not know how long the parley would last, but they were prepared for a good many weeks in Bogota...
...Bogota for a Colombian representative last year, he was told that there was only one man in the country who knew how to write the terse, factual stories that North Americans like. "Unfortunately for you," a Colombian explained, "he is our President." He spoke of keen, wiry Alberto Lleras Camargo, the "boy wonder" editor who became Minister of Interior (Premier) at 29, and stepped into the presidency ten years later. Last week, Lleras, now 41, got a job with even more scope; he was elected director general of the venerable Pan American Union...