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This year's winners will be working on a variety of topics in four different countries. Daum plans to study the contemporary role of the Church in social development in Paraguay, while Weisskoff will investigate problems of transportation in Colombia. Moore will deal with economic problems in Chile, and Goldberg plans to work on labor and railroad problems in Argentina. Each of the students is expected to keep a journal of his experiences, to be of help to future Harvard investigators in the field...
...ministers of 20 Hemisphere nations will hear a report on one part of the Alliance for Progress that no one complains about. It is the Inter-American Development Bank, a sort of hemispheric version of the World Bank, founded three years ago in Washington and run ever since by Chile's Felipe Herrera, 40, an able and articulate economist. To give the bank its $1 billion capital, the U.S. subscribed $450 million; Latin American nations put up the rest, each giving according to its wealth. On top of this the bank also administers $394 million in Alliance for Progress...
...father, Princeton Professor R.B.Y. Scott, former dean of McGill University's Faculty of Divinity, who has been doing Bible study in Jordan, and to his brother Gavin, TIME'S Buenos Aires bureau chief, who was covering an other political story at the other end of the hemisphere-Chile's municipal elections...
...their first presidential candidate in 1958; in 1961's congressional elections they polled 15% of the vote. They argue for an independent but Western-oriented foreign policy, demand thoroughgoing economic and social reform at home. In last week's election they drew strength from conservatives disheartened by Chile's continuing economic crisis (living costs went up almost 40% in the last 15 months), and from non-Communist liberals fed up with the far left...
...scholarships and "all-expense-paid" tours. Some return disenchanted with Cuba's socialist paradise; many others become terrorists, guerrillas and Communist party workers. Bolivia still has diplomatic relations with Cuba, and an estimated 1,000 Bolivian workers went to Cuba last year; some 400 are still there. Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico will not talk about their nationals in Cuba, but the figure runs into the thousands. Other nations frown upon travel to Castroland, but until last Feb. 15 it was no trick to fly to Mexico, where the Cuban embassy issued a visa on a slip of paper...