Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts at quiet mediation had failed. Nor would any U.S. gesture of conciliation shake Panama's deter mination for a showdown over the canal. And so last week, the OAS unhappily voted 16-1, Chile alone dissenting, to invoke the Rio pact and formally investigate Panama's charge of U.S. aggression during last month's Canal Zone riots...
...though only survey courses of Western Europe were available at Harvard, with the University protesting that a more specific study of the varied languages and cultures within that area was not important enough to merit the student's individual attention. There is no undergraduate course on Mexico, Argentina, Chile, or even Brazil alone. As to courses studying specific aspects of a particular nation--something taken for granted in the study of Europe--Harvard is years and years away...
...roofs; once in a while a relatively imposing dwelling thrusts above the squalid huts. But no major Latin American city has been able to cope with the ever-growing demands for housing. At least 400,000 new low-cost urban housing units are needed in Venezuela, 400,000 in Chile, 500,000 in Argentina...
...once-somnolent town of Valencia, 100 miles west of Caracas, is now a booming industrial city of 220,000 population with plenty of job opportunities and no slums to speak of. A second new industrial complex is going up along the Orinoco and Caroni Rivers in eastern Venezuela. Chile also hopes to spread job opportunities by building two new industrial centers out in farm provinces...
...rush to the cities will be hard to slow down. No matter how uninviting they may seem to others, they will always look good to thousands of people like Carlos Fernandez, who recently left the rural south of Chile for Santiago. "Sometimes I'd listen to the radio," he says, "and Santiago seemed like another country...