Word: chaco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progress outside Peru is also impressive. Though Ecuador and Colombia have not gone beyond the planning stage, Venezuela has already opened 275 miles of its portion of the Marginal Highway, and has another 85 miles under way. Paraguay has built a 442-mile link across the Gran Chaco, cutting transportation time from the rich central farming areas to Asuncion from six or eight days to ten hours. Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos has built about one-third of a planned 1,100-mile stretch, renaming one of the small towns along it after Belaunde...
...four months ago, protesting Castro's stepped-up aggression. Last week the Organization of American States accused Castro of sending four armed Cuban regulars to the coast of Venezuela last May, the first overt and deliberate military invasion of one Latin American country by another since the Gran Chaco border war between Bolivia and Paraguay more than 30 years...
...answer seems to be: until he loses a crucial one. In off-year elections for the lower house in 1965, the Peronistas gained 44 seats again, but the People's Radicals still held 70, and thus maintain a tenuous control of the legislature. Two other minor provinces, Chaco and Neuquén, have also elected Peronista governments, but no major provinces will go up for grabs until March 1967. Since the military still believes in constitutional government, no golpe seems unavoidable before then...
...quarterfinals, Chace had the misfortune to be matched against Jim Nance, the Syracuse All-America fullback who has taken the heavyweight championship in the Easterns for the last two years. Nance, who pinned his first opponent in 50 seconds, took 4:46 to dispose of Chaco...
Dave Morash, undefeated this year for the Lions, then downed Harvard Captain Ben Brooks 9-6 at 191 pounds in a see-saw match marked by a number of rapidfire reverses. Heavyweight Tack Chaco salvaged a little of Harvard's pride by stopping Chattman of Columbia...