Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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True, the History Department has shown some awareness of South America. But its single full course, half on Latin America's colonial period, half on Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, is far from adequate. By limiting itself to the ABC countries, it overlooks dangerous (for the U.S. at least happenings in other South American nations, notably Bolivia and Peru; and being a history course which stresses incidents, not general trends, it cannot hope to studey the background and significance of contemporary events in South America...
...fire may have been touched off by a holiday firecracker. It broke out early on New Year's Day in a waterfront lumberyard in Valparaiso, Chile's chief port and second city (pop. 240,000). Merrymakers gathered in thousands to watch as the flames roared through five huge stacks of lumber and spread to a few nearby buildings. It was a spectacular New Year's show. But within an hour, cheered on by their wives and children behind the police cordons, the firemen (volunteers, like all Chilean bomberos) seemed to be getting the blaze under control...
...Bolivians themselves say, theirs has been a land of the future for four centuries. Since Bolivar won them independence, they have had 179 revolutions, an average of one every nine months. They have lost four wars and half of their territory. Their outlet to the sea was lost to Chile in the "War of the Pacific...
...example, Chile's new president made campaign promises to cancel Chile's Mutual Security Treaty, renew diplomatic relations with Russia, and allow the country's Reds to come out of hiding. The Bolivian government, which kicked American investors out of the tin industry, told the people that American refusal to pay a "fair" price for tin is at the root of their ecomic disaster. A flood of Communist and nationalist propaganda ruined our bid for a defense treaty with Mexico. Throughout Central and South America, in fact, politicians have found that denouncing the Yanqui pays off in votes. If such...
Bugs & Vampires. The son of a Santiago judge, Don J.T. did not start out to lead so many lives. As soon as he graduated from the Institute Nacional at 16, he was bundled off to the University of Chile to study law. The course was supposed to ake five years, but Medina tossed it off in three...