Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threaten war if Israel goes ahead next spring with its planned diversion of the River Jordan's waters. In Laos, the fighting between the Communist Pathet Lao and the neutralists could flare any time. In Brazil, runaway inflation threatens the nation with chaos. There are incipient crises in Chile and Haiti, Cambodia and Malaysia, and a shooting war in Viet...
...SERGIO GUTIERREZ-OLIVOS The wife of Chile's newly arrived ambassador scored well with a novel form of entertainment. She and her husband, a former law school dean, worked up a month-long "Image of Chile" program, lured more than 300 diplomats and officials, including the Bobby Kennedys, the Johnsons, the Arthur Schlesingers Jr., to hear performers like Pianist Claudio Arrau and Felicia Montealegre, Leonard Bernstein's actress wife, who recited Chilean poetry...
...America had only 13 Catholic universities, with some 10,000 students. Today there are 31, and their total enrollment is close to 50,000. Brazil counts ten (v. four ten years ago); Argentina has six, all founded since the fall of Dictator Juan Peron in 1955; Mexico has four; Chile has two. Córdoba's Catholic University itself was founded in 1958, yet its library has already grown to 55,000 volumes, its enrollment to 1,200 and its faculty...
...America. Sarita took a liking to the personable monk, who received permission from his abbot to stay with her while she completed arrangements for disposing of her estate. She even gave power of attorney to Brother Leo, who took her off to the sites of the new monasteries in Chile and Argentina...
...death, oil royalties have increased the value of the estate by $2,000,000. As for Brother Leo, he presumably would have little to say about where the income from any foundation went now. He has been assigned to Our Lady of the Andes, the new monastery in Chile that was built with the help of Sarita's funds. His job there: herding cattle...