Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gian-Carlo's musical talent was making him something of a problem child, known as "I'enfant prodige" around Milanese salons. His mother put an end to that. Father Menotti had died, so she packed Gian-Carlo off to Colombia with her to settle her husband's affairs. On the way back to Italy, she stopped in New York, and asked Tullio Serafin, then a top conductor at the Metropolitan, what she should do with her talented but untempered son. The next thing Gian-Carlo knew, he had been plunked down before Composition Teacher Rosario Scalero...
...Daniel M. Pattison of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) in a letter last week to U.S. Senators and the State Department. Objects of the charge were the supporters of the Conservative Party now in power in the South American republic of Colombia. During the past year or so, said Pattison, the Roman Catholic Conservatives had been systematically trying to drive the Protestants out by beatings, bombings, arson and intimidation...
Pattison listed a round dozen "recent" incidents, gathered in a week spent in Colombia inspecting hospitals, schools and other works of the 39 Presbyterian missionaries now there. The Presbyterians, he said, had not been the only ones mistreated. Wrote he: "The Lutheran Church, which, with the Presbyterians, has the largest United States mission representation in Colombia, is ready to add its expressed protest to the religious persecution being experienced by Protestants under the present regime. The Scandinavian Alliance missionaries have been forced to leave-fleeing to Venezuela. Smaller groups have experienced at least as severe persecution...
...Less. All over Colombia and all around Latin America, U.S. businessmen were running into this sort of competition from Europe. In Caracas, Importer Eugenio Mendoza explained that he had stopped buying U.S. structural steel because Belgian, German and Luxembourg firms were offering him the same goods for $40 less than the $104-a-ton U.S. price. In Chile, the national airlines ordered British De Havilland transports. Salvadorean textile men found they could buy Italian rayon fiber for io/ a Ib. less than the U.S. article. In Lima's streets, women wore British nylons...
Other countries with such facilities are: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany (American, British, and French zones), Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Israel...