Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...site of the three-day meeting is mildly symbolic: it is the Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este, where the treaty for the Alliance for Progress was signed by the countries' economic ministers in 1961. Despite impressive economic growth in several countries, notably Venezuela and the Central American republics, the Alliance has fallen short of its goal of freeing Latin America from the gross disparities between rich and poor, from the rigid tariff barriers that inhibit trade, and from the debilitating dependence on only one or two crops...
...separate trading zones, the eleven-nation Latin American Free Trade Association and the five-nation Central American Common Market, have sprung up south of the border in recent years. But they are too loosely organized and too small to have much overall effect on the continent's economic growth. Johnson's proposal calls for converting those two organizations into one European-style economic community. It would be run by a strong Brussels-type secretariat whose policy would be to encourage the integration and diversification of the area's industries. One country, for example, would concentrate on producing...
While looking on such heresy with a certain amount of ambiguity, the Kremlin has decided to make an example of Novy Mir. Though its poet-editor, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 57, contends that "I am a Communist in all the complexity of my soul," the party removed him from the Central Committee, recently fired two of his editors and replaced them with three safer editors. Two weeks ago, it rebuked the magazine for "a lopsided showing of reality" and "ideological errors and drawbacks...
Most U.S. educators have long looked with suspicion on Roberts' fiscal-minded approach to running a college, and last week the North Central Associ ation of Colleges and Secondary Schools voted to revoke Parsons' accreditation. The association did not explain its reasons, but other investigators have unearthed evidence suggesting that academic quality is not Parsons' primary goal. A surprising proportion of its students are either transfers or dropouts from other schools, and the colloquial campus name for Parsons is "Dropout U." Although well-paid, many Parsons professors must handle up to 20 class hours a week...
...small complainants in the face of strengthened competition. Most railroad men assume that all three will eventually be included in another merger under consideration, that of the Norfolk & Western and the C. & O.-B. & O. But the ICC, maintained Clark, "erred in approving the immediate consummation of the [Penn Central] merger without determining the ultimate fate" of the smaller roads...