Word: guatemala
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...Hughes Aircraft will probably be the first to explore the moon's surface, and cameras are also reaching far back into the past. A nine-lens aerial spy produced by Itek will soon begin searching out ancient Mayan and Incan ruins in the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala. It will also be used to study the behavior patterns of a timid tribe of Mexican Indians-believed to be direct descendants of the Mayans-by spying on them from...
...bewildering array of cosmetics, jewelry, shoes, shirts and shawls, plus whisky from Scotland, cutlery from Germany and nylons from the U.S. From the Caribbean and Central America down through the Andes to Chile, they serve as supermarket, liquor store and miniature Macy's all rolled into one. In Guatemala City, market women and their kids and kinfolk make up 10% of the capital's 400,000 population; Lima's markets count 7,000 women; and in the island nation of Jamaica, nearly all the food-distribution system revolves around "higgler" women...
...late for me, but not for my son," says a Guatemala City market matron. Nicaragua's Emiliano Chamorro, a onetime President (1917-1920), and Augusto Cesar Sandino, a revolutionary general (1926-33), were the sons of market women. Other ladies of the market have seen their sons become doctors, lawyers and army officers. Says a U.S. AID official in Bolivia: "These women have social mobility. They are going to be a strong political force in this country...
...unbigoted; as halfback on Laredo High's unbeaten 1927 football team, he called signals in both English and Spanish. Giving up practice as what he calls "a Texas country lawyer" in 1943, he joined the State Department, serving over the years mostly in Latin American posts (Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador) or dealing with Latin American affairs in Washington. The jobs took a personal toll: in 1947, when he was Second Secretary in Caracas, Venezuela, his first son swallowed some gaily colored fireworks, thinking they were candy, and died of phosphorous poisoning. In Mexico City Mann suffered from chronic altitude...
...Argentina's Arturo Frondizi, Peru's Manuel Prado, Guatemala's Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, Ecuador's Carlos Arosemena, Dominican Republic's Juan Bosch, Honduras' Ramén Villeda Morales...