Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong likes and dislikes. He loves gardens and animals; he" detests noise, the letter G (in his poems he always uses J instead) and most modern Spanish-language poetry, especially the work of Chile's Communist-lining Pablo Neruda. His favorite poet, Jimenez once said, is God. Jimenez' own poetry is lyrical, impressionistic, polished, nonpolitical. Because of the translation barrier, he is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, but within it he is widely regarded as the language's greatest living poet...
...Hosts. Brazil's Jusce-lino Kubitschek, with Uruguay's Alberto Zubiria a guest in his plane, had planned to be back in Rio for a state visit by Argentina's Pedro Aramburu, but engine trouble delayed them in Peru, and bad weather stalled them in Santiago, Chile. Chile's Carlos Ibanez, however, was not on hand to greet them; on his way home the Chilean President had 1) run across Ecuador's Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra at the Guayaquil airport and dawdled over a glass of champagne, and 2) landed at Lima for a chat...
...avoid the possibility of hurt feelings, suites identical in size and furnishings were set aside for each chief of state, put under guard and furnished with on-the-house bottles of each President's favorite drink (Spanish "Fundador" brandy for Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, Scotch for Chile's Carlos Ibáñez, French cognac for Mexico's Adolfo Ruiz Cortines...
...soon as they arrived, the visiting Presidents fanned out in search of old friends. Chile's Ibáñez popped in on Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner bright and early the day before the conference; Costa Rica's José Figueres dumped his bags in his room and headed for the hotel coffee shop for a chat with a group of old pals. At the first formal meeting at Arias' presidential palace, the informal talks went...
...Ottumwa minister, was crowned Miss Universe in the annual measurement melee at Long Beach, Calif. What especially irked some of the other girls: Carol is the second U.S. contestant to take the title in the past three years. One of the more outspoken Latin beauties, miffed Miss Chile (36-24-36), tried her own hand at judging. Meeowed she: "Miss Germany-second-is top-heavy ("40"-22-34). Miss Sweden-third-could not recite or speak in public. As for the beauty of some of the others-well...