Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waynick asked and got promises of strong police protection. A police detail appeared briefly, then left when all appeared quiet. Thereupon Father Florencio Alvarez, a local priest, led his most ardent parishioners down the steep cobblestone street from a hilltop slum behind the chapel. The marchers carried banners proclaiming "Colombia is Catholic" and "We Will Not Be Robbed of Our Religion." Some of them also heaved stones. Halting directly before the church door, Father Alvarez thanked his followers for their "protestation of faith" and denounced "Protestant millionaires from the U.S. who try to sow disunity and uproot the true faith...
Driven out of Colombia's backlands during the past two years by civil warfare and persecution, Protestant missionaries have tried to start work anew in the big cities. But in Bogota last week an incident occurred which suggested that freedom of worship, guaranteed by the constitution of 1936, is still hazardous...
...year, Colombian-born Hector Robert Acebes Medina organized a small expedition to find the source of the Orinoco all over again and study Indian tribes along the way. According to Acebes, he was within 100 miles of his goal when Venezuelan authorities chased him back to San Felipe in Colombia. He had studied the Indians, and had seen, so he said, some toninas -strange mermaidlike mammals with breasts like a woman's and the strength to defeat alligators in aquatic battle. But he was not permitted to re-enter Venezuela and continue his travels...
...five-day, 1,933-mile scramble sponsored by Mexico's National Automobile Association. Competing with Mexican speed demons for $68,000 in prizes-and the glory of beating some of the world's nerviest racers to Ciudad Juarez-were two-man teams from the U.S., Canada, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, France and Italy. Ahead of them were the hairpin curves, roller-coaster dips and erratic paving of the Pan-American highway, bone-jarring enough at tourist speeds, and highly dangerous for even the most experienced racer...
...skis, with a 1,875-lb. work load and a maximum 630-mile cruising range, the Beaver is an ideal frontier plane. Canadian bush airlines clamored for them as soon as the first one came off the assembly line in 1947. De Havilland sold Beavers in Finland, Indonesia, Colombia, Malaya, Rhodesia and Chile. Now better than half the plant's entire output (currently 12 planes a month) will be delivered to the U.S. Army and Air Force...