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Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last week ceremoniously founded a Third Force political movement for Colombia, the only country in South America that has preserved until now the once-standard two-party system. As Rojas explained it, the Third Force will make no pitch for support from the "odious politicians" and the "oligarchs" of the historic Liberal and Conservative Parties. Rather it will stand, like the old Peronista Party in Argentina, on two legs: labor and the army...
Jaime plans to make his first concert tour in September (Peru, Bolivia and possibly Colombia) and then return for more studies, heading for eventual participation in the 1958 Brussels International contest. But he is cautious about predicting a future for himself: "Maybe it will be the concert stage, if I can make it. I can only hope...
...Though only four nations (Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Guatemala) attended, it is regarded as the birthplace of Pan American unity...
...TIME was the first great American magazine to concede to Latin America the importance it deserves," said Alberto Lleras Camargo, former President of Colombia and ex-secretary-general of the Organization of American States. "I have been a constant reader these 15 years. We Latin Americans owe much to TIME, not only to the Latin American edition but to the HEMISPHERE section in the domestic edition, which has done more to acquaint the U.S. with Latin America than any other effort, collective or individual, governmental or private...
...Currie left the U.S., became an economic adviser to the Colombian government, later resigned to buy a 500-acre ranch, where he raises cattle and supplies milk to Bogota. He avoids the U.S. colony in the capital, has announced that he considers Colombia his "real home," and is seeking citizenship there. Last week the State Department said that Lauchlin Currie, by staying abroad five years, had automatically forfeited U.S. citizenship...