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...good fun and the hotels are wonderful - especially the Gran in Managua, where everybody sits around the great open lobby with the swimming pool in the middle, spying on one another. Some day I will discover why all the spies in Central America insist that they are in the lumber business...
...Medellinenses: "In a generation we will have skimmed the cream of economic opportunities in Colombia. After that we will recreate the Gran Colombia (Simon Bolivar's old dream of a united Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador), which the stupid Bogotanos have tried patching together again with flowery speeches and poetry, but which can be sutured only with trade and industry. And then undoubtedly we will draw in Peru, before inquiring into possibilities further south. Half a continent will not be too much elbow room for us." Argentines might be annoyed to know it, but Medellinenses do not take too seriously...
Walk along Madrid's Gran Via in the early evening-the hour of the Paseo. Smart women in furs and well-dressed men jostle along the avenue, huddling in their mufflers against the chill wind from the Guadarramas. Street lights gleam on neatly cleaned streets, on the chaste, well-stocked windows of expensive stores. The roadway is crowded with French, German, Italian, British and American automobiles and with rickety taxis that are always full...
...Mexico City's Colegio Roosevelt,* twelve-year-old Guadalupe Hernandez had a composition to write. Like the rest of the pupils in the sixth grade, she would write on el Señor President Roosevelt, Mexico's gran amigo, on the first anniversary of his death (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Guadalupe did her twelve-year-old best...
...musty chambers of Lima's venerable Gran Hotel Bolívar, over bourbon-and-sodas, representatives of the world's major oil companies also studied the supposedly secret Curtice plan. They grumbled at proposed royalties that would resemble the prevailing Venezuelan scale of 16⅔%. Such percentages, they said, were fair enough in proven fields like Venezuela, but high for Peru, where exploration costs are probably the highest in the world and where the trans-Andean pipeline to bring oil out to the west coast might cost...