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...veteran overseas reporter, TIME bureau chief in Buenos Aires and former (1950-53) bureau chief in Singapore, World War II Chicago Sun correspondent in the Pacific Theater, son of Comedienne Ray Dooley Dowling, stepson of Actor Eddie Dowling; in the crash of a Panair do Brazil plane; at Cuatro Mojones, Paraguay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...diamond-rich Guiana, no prospector was more given to the feverish, carousing miner's life than Agustín Martínez. For months he would pan the sandy river bottoms; finding a few diamonds, he would load his canoe with rum and float downriver, happily strumming the cuatro, his four-stringed guitar. Then some missionaries showed Agustín the error of his ways. "I put the cuatro and the rum in a sack and threw them into the Caroni River," he reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Evangelist | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...news conference asked him to say something in Spanish, Nixon first explained through an interpreter that his high-school Spanish was badly rusted; then he drew a burst of sympathetic laughter from the Cubans by saying good-naturedly: "Buenos días. Muchas gracias. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis." Upon landing in Mexico City from Havana, Nixon got off to another ice-breaking start by reminding the Mexicans that he had visited their country before. "My wife and I first came here on our honeymoon 15 years ago," he said, adding wistfully that in those happy days the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Vivas for a V.P. | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...tres-cuatro Tenemos Perón para rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Air We Breathe | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...Mexico City, audiences cheered the first collaboration of three of Mexico's most gifted sons: Composer Carlos Chávez, Painter Miguel Covarrubias and Dancer José Limón. Their epic ballet, Los Cuatro Soles (The Four Suns), was the brilliant opener of a three-week national dance festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Triumph at Quetzalcoatl | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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