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Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1783, the son of an aristocratic, enormously wealthy Spanish coffee planter; In a series of violent, bloody campaigns he freed Venezuela, Colombia...
...years ago Mr. Wernette was on a similar commission which inspected the financial situation in Colombia, with the cooperation of A. L. Landman, consulting expert in Government Accounting at New York City...
...Great Britain and Belgium. In this field it runs into competition with International Telephone & Telegraph. Its customers include the government telephone systems of Great Britain, Australia, Japan, also some subsidiaries of A. T. & T. The company and its subsidiaries operate 300,000 telephones having systems in British Columbia, Portugal, Colombia, big investments in other systems. Despite its international nature, Associated's principal headquarters are in Chicago...
Major General Arturo de Echona and a ring of other potentates and sportsmen in Colombia's commercial centre, Barranquilla, stood keenly intent last week around a table covered with a red cloth. At the table Manhattan's marble champion Vinnie Sullivan, 13, who is making a South American tour, gave an exhibition of championship aggie-cracking...
TIME is glad to learn that shotless, bloodless elections are less unusual in Colombia than they were made to seem by President-Elect Olaya in a Manhattan speech last month, when he emphasized that during his election none were shot, that his election was accepted by all parties without bloodshed...