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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colombia's plight becomes all the more surprising when we remember that only three years ago, Colombians were hopeful that the newly established Rojas government would create a stable democracy which would finally enable the country to develop its vast natural resources. They hailed Rojas' ouster of arch-conservative President Laureano Gomez, who had fought to retain power despite lack of popular support, and supported his attempts to end the six-year-old civil war that was ravaging the thinly populated western plains. Immediately after seizing power, Rojas removed restraints on the press, and promised free elections and restoration...
...President Rojas is permanently to solve Colombia's critical problems, he must first develop a long-range policy for freeing the economy from its exclusive dependence on coffee. Because of this pernicious one-crop system, Colombia has been forced to import chocolate for home consumption, despite the fact that she was once the world's leading producer of cacao. Though she has at Medellin one of the world's most efficient textile mills, Colombia does not raise enough cotton for her own needs. Despite a 95 million dollar loan from the World Bank for highway and railroad construction, she still...
...game itself didn't matter. No Princetonian could develop much enthusiasm for one that was won this easily, without any thrills in the winning, and was really only a warm-up for Yale. Even before the crowds had left the Stadium, orange pins appeared that said in black letters: "Beat Yale...
When Israel sprang into existence in 1948, some of its U.N. sponsors wondered whether it would find its peaceful place in the Middle East or develop into a "nasty little Sparta." Its 650,000 people, with the help of a sympathetic world, had elbowed their way to a place in a hostile part of the world. They performed prodigies of desert pioneering. But they never succeeded in winning the tolerance or the trade of their neighbors...
...writer copies to suit her. Lowney moves him along to "skits." What about? "A bird, a dog. a boy. a tree." Out of these literary acorns, feels Lowney. giant novels may grow. "I mark them and I write ideas all along the margins where they could develop, where they could get a stream of consciousness." Her marginalia are often crisp ("This becomes idiotic") and sometimes to the point ("You say his uniform was clean. This is the first time I've seen anyone in this story with any clothes on"). Says Tesch: "Lowney really helped me. She went through...