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...Punta del Este: Please check if Dillon's suits come from Peale the Tailor. See THE NATION, Man with the Purse...
...spokesman was Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. While Cuba's spinach-bearded economic commissar, Che Guevara, glowered in his chair, Dillon opened the conference with the most gen erous offer of help in U.S. history. In a flat, toneless voice that failed to hide the tre mendous promise of his words, Dillon vowed that the U.S. would take the lead in securing $20 billion in low-interest loans over the next ten years to raise Latin America's living standards. "We welcome the revolution of rising expectations" he said, "and we intend to transform it into a revolution...
...America, misunderstanding and misunderstood, pledging much but producing little in the way of desperately needed capital investment. But there was a new tone to the U.S. commitments made at Punta del Este-and this tone reflected the convictions and attitudes of both Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Douglas Dillon. As custodian of the world's richest treasury. Dillon presides over the fiscal plans and policies of a nation with a record gross national product of $515 billion; as the fiscal housekeeper for the U.S. Government, Dillon works within the roomy confines of the largest peacetime budget in history...
Visit to Jânio. The trip was broken at Brasilia, where Dillon, on behalf of Kennedy, invited Brazil's President Jânio Quadros to visit the U.S. in December (Quadros accepted). Then Dillon was off to Punta del Este, where trouble immediately showed its hairy face. Among the 1,400 delegates gathered in the seaside resort was Castro's left-hand man. Che Guevara, who could be expected to use every weapon in his well-stocked arsenal to confuse* and defeat what he terms the "Alliance for Exploitation...
...from which floated the ball-game scores. Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy of a local radio station. "Grab a hunk of sky," mouths Marshal Matt Dillon from the TV screen. "Ghur sao chiu tin" rasps radio's Cantonese cowpoke...