Word: chileanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States toward Cuba. "The Eisenhower administration never made any distinction in practice between a radical nationalist revolution and a Communist revolution. The Communist Party does not run Cuba--Castro does. In the long run, this may be a very important distinction, and not only in Cuba. The Chilean Com- munists, for example, are Chileans first and Communists second...
...told the OAS, "we achieved a 30% increase over our long-term average of investment, a 300% increase in the rate of construction of low-cost housing, a 100% increase in public spending on health, and a 55% increase in expenditures for education." In two sessions with Kennedy, the Chilean President said that his country needed outside aid to bolster its economy and to continue developing, but he made it clear that Chile intends to help itself as well. Paraphrasing an old Kennedy cadence, Alessandri said at a White House luncheon: "We must not ask what each country...
Muddy Shoes. Most countries that invited the Peace Corps asked for schoolteachers and instructors to train their own people in such trades as carpentry, plumbing, home economics, nursing. In the village of Rio Negro in southern Chile, Janet Boegli, 22, from Austin, Texas, shares a small house with two Chilean girls, teaches women how to use a sewing machine, knit, mix powdered milk, clean beer bottles to use for babies' formulas. Chilean volunteers have organized communities of 20-30 houses, called centros. They raise money to buy sewing machines and other needed equipment by organizing fiestas and raffles. "What...
Noise imitation is an art generously described as culturally insignificant, and its practitioners are historically tenants of the ghetto reserved for Swiss bell-ringing acts and families who come onstage to play Jealousy on paper-covered combs. But Lucho Navarro, a Chilean who gave up aspirations for the quiet life of an electrical engineer to devote himself to noisemaking, is such a master of the art that his wordless vocabulary has become a hilarious Esperanto; by imitating the sound of nearly everything, Navarro reminds his listeners that the world is indeed full of sound and fury. Coming from...
...slats, wire and an old barrel. Formerly, only one of every two San Manuel chicks survived; 49 of 50 chicks that Tomor is raising in a brooder have thrived. Now Tomor hopes to crossbreed good-laying Leghorns with the Rhode Island Reds that lay the brown eggs preferred by Chilean wives. Says Schoolmaster Sandoval Córdoba: "Do you believe what he has done in three weekends? It is the best thing that ever happened here. For the first time the people are beginning to work together as a community...