Word: colombia
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...experts on the U. S. hinterland set sail for South America to interpret themselves (and the U. S. hinterland) to Latins. Grizzled Author Sherwood Anderson (Home Town) headed for Chile; eager, pink-cheeked Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder (Our Town) expected to fill lecture-appointments under State Department auspices in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru...
...Proving that Brazil's Villa-Lobos is not the sole South American composer of well-made songs, dances, Parisian-sounding salon pieces. Others: Brazil's Fernandez and Mignone, Uruguay's Pedrell and Broqua, Argentina's Ficher, Chile's Santa Cruz, Peru's Sas, Colombia's Uribe-Holguin...
...first organized visit of its kind to a U. S. university, 109 men & women of seven South American countries (Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay) had arrived to spend their summer in a special six-week "summer school" at North Carolina. Their trip was arranged by the Institute of International Education and Grace Line (which cut rates in half) and was aided by the U. S. State Department and South American governments (which paid some of the students' expenses). The students-undergraduates, teachers, doctors, lawyers, social workers, newspapermen, an army officer-had come to study chiefly the English...
Sailing on the seventh he will head first for Venezuela, and then travel to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil, spending from ten days to two weeks in each country...
...jittery U. S., Sedta is as sinister as her late sister Scadta. Recently she has sought (unsuccessfully) to extend service to 1) Colombia, 2) the Galápagos Islands,† which, though sparsely inhabited and commercially impotent, are located strategically near the Panama Canal, 3) the jungles of eastern Ecuador, from which she could easily connect with Lufthansa-owned Condor's penetration line in western Brazil. Her Junkers JU52s (used as troop transports in Belgium, The Netherlands) could fly from Ecuador to the Canal Zone in four hours or less...