Word: gonz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first week of his U.S. good-will visit, Chile's energetic President Gabriel González Videla lived up to all his advance notices. Flashing a smile reminiscent of F.D.R.'s, he raced from ceremony to celebration with a headlong pace that recalled the late Fiorello La Guardia...
...first night in Washington, González, with his handsome wife Mitty and his pretty daughter Sylvia, stayed with the Trumans at Blair House. After dinner, host Harry played the piano and Margaret sang. Then the President called on González, who likes to dabble in Debussy and Brahms, to take over. "I never play for anybody who plays better than I do," smiled Don Gabriel...
...Ball. In his talks with the President, the tactful González never asked for a loan. But he asked the President's moral support for the bill now in Congress to postpone for two more years the imposition of a 2?-a-lb. import tax on foreign copper. He also invited President Truman to visit Chile next November when the country opens its $88 million Concepción steel plant, built with...
...Dean Acheson pointed out at dinner one night, the visitor's gifts only began with statecraft. Some fifty years ago, said Acheson, the muses had fought to control González' future. In the end, only four remained in the running. One touched his tongue and made him an orator, another touched his head and made him a statesman, a third touched his fingers and made him a musician. "And," said Acheson, "the fourth muse, Terpsichore, touched his feet-and I don't have to tell you what happened." González roared with laughter. After dinner...
...know when we have had guests of whom we have thought so much," said Harry Truman, who made no attempt to keep pace with his guest after dark. At week's end, when González' train rolled northward, other Washington bigwigs were red-eyed and exhausted. Chilean Ambassador Félix Nieto del Rio saw his chief off on the 4 p.m. train, then went straight home...