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...Cambridge but spent much of this summer discussing the Zinacantan scene with a group of undergraduates in San Cristobal. The students, most of whom came from Harvard, we sponsored by a joint summer field studies program, designed in 1959 to train college students at anthropological centers in Peru, Ecuador and Brazil, as well as in Mexico...
...Italian venture, Castle & Cooke has over the past six years built up a thriving fish-cannery business in Oregon; its Bumble Bee canned fish last year accounted for 38% of its $4,600,000 earnings. C. Brewer & Co. has set up cane plantations and sugar refineries in Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Iran. American Factors is developing 1,400,000 acres for agriculture in Australia and is experimenting with raising pineapples in Honduras. Theo. H. Davies has burgeoning sugar and cement operations in the Philippines, and Alexander & Baldwin is reportedly dickering to buy a Manila stevedoring company...
...were over, and some key ones lost-but there was international politicking to be done, and without stirring from Washington. Accompanied by his mother. Rose Kennedy, who is the President's official hostess while Jackie is on Cape Cod, he went out to Washington National Airport to welcome Ecuador's President Carlos Julio Arosemena. In two days of receptions, lunches and talks, the two Presidents discussed U.S.-Ecuadorian problems, but Kennedy often turned the conversation to the crisis in Peru, where Washington's stiff reaction to a military takeover was now embarrassed by the way the Peruvian...
When not table-hopping among negotiators, Goldberg attended to such routine duties of office as a weekly staff meeting, a Cabinet meeting, a State Department dinner for the President of Ecuador, a string of office appointments. Through it all, he seldom looked tired. Whenever the pace began to wear, a quick pull at the department's rowing machine and a shower restored...
...Soup. Most promising of the new common markets is the two-year-old Free Trade Zone of nine Latin American nations-Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador and Paraguay. Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos and Brazil's President Joao Goulart are already laying plans to freeze out all imports of autos and auto parts by arranging for each zone member to specialize in particular auto components. (In practice, U.S. and European automakers will simply make cars inside the Latin zone.) The Latin Americans have shown unexpected readiness to compromise their differences, last January agreed...