Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their fashion, Pepi's counterparts in London (Hugh Shaw), Rio de Janeiro (José Gallo), Cairo (Abdel Basset El Taher) and Shanghai (the three Wongs) are equally adept. Shaw, a small, taciturn, greying Englishman whose way with automobiles approaches genius, will be long remembered by the squads of photographers he maneuvered through London's blazing streets for vantage shots of the blitz. Gallo is a politically indispensable young man who has somehow made himself welcome at the headquarters of all of Brazil's political parties. Abdel, an Upper Egypt man with the Egyptians' fine feeling...
...Peru, where nothing can be imported without a license, restrictions are just as drastic. Every request for a permit must be published in the official El Peruano (including the intention to spend $8.50 from a U.S. bank account for a subscription to TIME). Even so, Peruvians' funds are so tight that half the applications to import machinery, locomotives, lathes, trucks, etc. are turned down. Since last March, the Government itself has spent 14% of Peru's foreign exchange, mainly for food bought in Chile and Argentina and sold to the public at a loss...
...Cairo last week a freckled, pug-nosed Arab soldier-adventurer basked in glory. The Arab press hailed him as a hero. The exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, grey-bearded Haj Amin El-Husseini, received him warmly. The Lebanese Legation gave a reception for him. He granted interviews in his suite at the Hotel Continental, talked cheerfully about starting an Arab war against both British and Jews in Palestine...
...El Chamizal. Mexico also hoped to discuss an old Rio Grande boundary question. El Chamizal (see map) lies within the city limits of El Paso-some 83 blocks, worth about $3,000,000. In 1911 a Canadian arbitrator awarded Mexico, which already held a portion of the north bank, a chunk of the disputed area. The U.S. turned down his verdict and stood on the boundary of the river's present banks...
Because of the longstanding dispute, El Chamizal's 600 acres are just thinly-settled river bottoms, with a shanty town, a few small packinghouses, a stockyard and a high school. But El Paso wants its title cleared so that El Chamizal can be developed. Roughhewn Texas Congressman Ewing Thomason, who wants to put a spanking new federal building there and build a new international bridge to Juarez, reportedly had President Truman's promise last week that he would keep El Chamizal in mind in Mexico City...