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Balkanized Continent. Tsiranana, of course, was denounced as a neocolonialist stooge. Next on the list of outspoken orators was Ghana's leftist Kwame Nkrumah. In a two-hour meander through his customary wood lot, the Redeemer threw some insights into Africa's darker thickets. As it now stands...
Highways and railroads are primary lifelines in most parts of the world. But in the jungles and towering mountains of Latin America, the highways are few, and millions of people have never seen a railroad. The ties that bind are the air lanes. In Santíago, Chile, last week...
Wing & a Prayer. Latin Americans have been air-minded almost from the first days of flight. The airplane smoothed over the continent's fractured geography, knitted together its scattered populations and-most important of all -proved a far cheaper means of transport than building highways or laying track. In...
Five times a week, Aerolineas Argentinas braves gale-force winds-often 70 m.p.h.-to deliver passengers and cargo to Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city, on the tip of the continent. More fearsome are the 20,000-ft. Andes, stretching the length of Latin America. On the 30-minute...
Egypt is rich in raw materials and relies heavily on them for export; one result is that prime places at the fair were given to models of mines and oil rigs, and to Egypt's fine cottons. But the surprise was the amount of consumer goods at the fair...