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...quite accidentally. Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the world's foremost genetic researchers, was experimenting with an amber-colored South American fruit fly known as Drosophila paulistorum at Manhattan's Rockefeller University. He was interested in one particular strain of the fly from the Llanos district of Colombia, and he isolated it from other strains in 1958. Five years later he and his assistant, Dr. Olga Pavlovsky, routinely attempted to interbreed the Llanos flies with similar strains and observe the results of the mating...
...economist, Hirschman worked on financial and monetary problems of European recovery for the Federal Reserve Board from 1946 to 1952, and then spent four years as an economic advisor and consultant in Bogota, Colombia...
When a five-man Soviet trade delegation arrived in Colombia three weeks ago, Castroite guerrillas took the occasion to bomb a train and ambush an army patrol, killing 15 persons. In reprisal, President Carlos Lleras Restrepo jailed 200 Communist Party leaders, most of whom were uninvolved in the terrorism. The Russians did not blink an eye or utter a protest; they just pressed right ahead with discussions for expanding last year's $3,000,000 worth of trade between the two countries and setting up consular relations...
Olivetti's 52,892 employees make and sell typewriters, special-purpose adding and calculating machines, teleprinters, accounting machines, small electronic computers and steel office furniture. The company has seven factories in Italy, others in the U.S. (through the subsidiary Olivetti-Underwood Corp.), Scotland, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and South Africa. Three years ago, Olivetti was in real trouble. It had to pump millions into Olivetti-Underwood. It was also afflicted by Olivetti family feuding, swelling costs, and a painful Italian recession. New life came in 1964 when a syndicate headed by Fiat's Giovanni Agnelli...
Canny Chat. Still, as a skilled economist Lleras knew only too well that Colombia badly needed the loan and that there was no way to avoid devaluation. Last week in his televised charla (chat) with the country, he explained that he had reopened talks with the lending agencies and proposed his own "Colombian plan." Beaming, he announced: "Naturally, they accepted it." The plan included further import controls, tight restrictions on capital movement, and something called "full convertibility"-which almost certainly meant a sleight-of-hand devaluation within six months...