Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Muddy Shoes. Most countries that invited the Peace Corps asked for schoolteachers and instructors to train their own people in such trades as carpentry, plumbing, home economics, nursing. In the village of Rio Negro in southern Chile, Janet Boegli, 22, from Austin, Texas, shares a small house with two Chilean girls, teaches women how to use a sewing machine, knit, mix powdered milk, clean beer bottles to use for babies' formulas. Chilean volunteers have organized communities of 20-30 houses, called centros. They raise money to buy sewing machines and other needed equipment by organizing fiestas and raffles. "What...
...join Europe's Common Market, maybe you can lick it by forming one of your own-or so goes the thinking these days among nations from Chile to the Congo. In Cairo alone over the past fortnight, the groundwork was laid for two new common markets; one would link five Arab nations, and another six African countries (Egypt judiciously proposes to join both). Africa, in fact, is building three common markets. Two more have been launched in Latin America, and an Asian market has been proposed by Malaya, Thailand and the Philippines...
...Soup. Most promising of the new common markets is the two-year-old Free Trade Zone of nine Latin American nations-Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador and Paraguay. Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos and Brazil's President Joao Goulart are already laying plans to freeze out all imports of autos and auto parts by arranging for each zone member to specialize in particular auto components. (In practice, U.S. and European automakers will simply make cars inside the Latin zone.) The Latin Americans have shown unexpected readiness to compromise their differences, last January agreed...
...year he was performing at a theater called the Bim-Bam-Bum in Santiago, Chile. Performances followed throughout South America until his success brought him to New York last fall. He now has offers of nightclub contracts in Chicago and California and is developing a whole new bouquet of New York sounds...
...used me for their excuse. 'How can you be for open tennis?' they asked each other, 'when you know it will fall into the hands of Kramer?'" At first, Kramer tried to build up the pro game, signed new players: Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, Chile's Luis Ayala, the U.S.'s Barry MacKay and Butch Buchholz. "But it soon became clear," wrote Kramer, "that my pro tour could not thrive on its own without open championships." So he decided to get out completely-in hopes that the I.L.T.F. would reconsider. Will it work...