Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge of our extensive coverage at Punta del Este was Montana-born William Forbis, an old Latin America hand who was our man in Central America two decades ago. He then was called to New York, where he wrote Latin American news and, after becoming a senior editor, was in charge of various sections of the magazine. Three months ago, he moved to Rio de Janeiro as chief of bureau and senior South American correspondent. We asked Bill about his new duties, and he cabled...
...hard to make a sum-up. Work is work anywhere. 1 have saudades [yearnings] for New York that have to be cured by thinking hard about how the trains don't run very well there-and how the New York Central tracked me down in Rio with a bill for a January commutation ticket that I never got or used. If I ever get back, though, I will have saudades of equal strength for here...
...Draft Beer, Not Boys." As the demonstration began, a confluence of contrasting groups flowed into the muddy Sheep Meadow of Manhattan's Central Park: anarchists under black flags; Vassar girls proving that they are, too, socially conscious; boys wearing beads and old Army jackets; girls in ponchos and scrapes, some with babies on their shoulders; Columbia University scholars in caps and gowns. On Central Park West, a parked bus bore the proud sign: "Even Smith"-meaning that college, too, was represented. There were Vietniks and Peaceniks, Trotskyites and potskyites, a contingent of 24 Sioux Indians from South Dakota...
...tire plant. Brazil is building the new $25 million, 15-story Panorama Palace Hotel on a Rio hill side overlooking Copacabana Beach; it will be Latin America's largest and lushest hotel. The massive 4,000,000-kw. Urubupunga Project going up on the Parana River in south-central Brazil, one of the largest hydroelectric complexes in the world, is part of a program to push Brazil's hydroelectric capacity from the current' 8,150,000 kw. to twelve million kw. by 1970, compared with the U.S.'s present 45 million...
Improved publicity under the CID will give plays advanced billing from the central agency, therefore selling more tickets and providing enough money for productions of original plays. In addition Miss Moss hopes that House with small cramped stages might be able to put on their shows in Agassiz or Sanders Theatre...