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Little Pancho Segura is the idol of Ecuador. Three years ago, at 16, he romped off with the tennis championship of the Bolivarian Olympics in Colombia. The following year, he won Argentina's River Plate tournament, the Wimbledon of South America. Last summer the Ecuadorian Government sent its beloved little Pancho to the U.S. to compete in the na tional championship at Forest Hills. Green on grass, young Segura did not last one round. But he stayed in the U.S., under the wing of Manhattan's Hispano Tennis Club, to try again this year...
Similar preclusive deals with other South American countries are in the cards. Economic diplomats in Washington look to Colombia's platinum and mercury; Bolivia's tin and tungsten; Chile's copper and nitrates; Venezuela's asphalt and oil-many another product the U.S. can use and ought to keep out of Axis hands...
...William Welch is a Chicago investment banker, worked for National City in Russia, has commuted almost yearly to Colombia on his own behalf...
...Brazil, which gets 58.49% of the U.S. quota, surplus coffee is still being systematically burned (54,000 bags last month). Yet Brazil's standard grade, Santos No. 4, has nearly doubled in price since last August. Colombia (19.8% of the quota), producing valuable special grades, raised its minimum prices nine times last winter. Brazilian growers and speculators, with 2,300,000 bags of quota coffee still to ship, are holding it back, waiting for still higher prices. Meanwhile shipping space is getting scarce and ocean freight costs are mounting. Brazil is also toying with the idea of setting...
...weeks later he emerged from the jungle at the Colombian border. Having done the impossible, he presented his notes and films to the Highway officers, returned to his classroom. As reward he asked nothing, and got it. Last week plans were going ahead for preliminary surveys of the Panama-Colombia link...