Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southern Democrats? The U.S. people like to believe that the whole Western Hemisphere is safe for democracy. The fact is that, with a few such exceptions as Uruguay, Chile and Costa Rica (the list is always subject to change), most Latin American countries are not democracies in the sense understood in the U.S. The notion that they are is an illusion fostered during World War II under the Good Neighbor policy...
...least duel, for his sacred personal rights, the record shows that he also goes in heavily for hero worship. Since Bolívar's day, Latin Americans have tended to follow men rather than parties or principles. They call themselves Peronistas, Arnulfistas (in Panama), Ibañistas (in Chile). Most of their caudillos, their strong men, have come from the army. Currently, military men preside over eleven Latino governments. Instead of confining themselves to the job of defending their country, Latin American militarists are entrenched as "the only well-organized political party" in every country except Costa Rica, Uruguay...
...Blanket. In Santiago, Chile, Weather Forecaster Julio Bustos was being sued by the mayor of Valdivia, who charged that Bustos' prediction of rain during Valdivia's centenary celebrations had discouraged tourists, cost the city 10 million pesos...
Matilde de Auso of Argentina Nowmi Diaz of Cuba, and Luey Dunsmore of Chile hold positions in the respective countries. They have been sent on a tour of the United States by the State Department and come to Harvard via the University's "Higher Education" plan for foreign dignitaries...
Anger in the Pantry. In Pinckneyville, 111., after finding only 30? in a café's cash register, a burglar 1) smashed ten dozen eggs, 2) poured vanilla extract in the chile, 3) plastered hamburger against the windows, 4) dumped a sack of sugar into the silverware...