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...thrill-seeking kids. When it opened on a holiday weekend earlier this month, 250,000 visited in just three days. Inside the mall Spanish pop tunes blared from loudspeakers as families pushed strollers along marble floors, past shop windows for large Spanish chain stores like Zara and El Corte Inglés, and over half a dozen international brands such as Nike, H&M and Benetton. As in any mall, teenagers stood in atriums under giant skylights, smoked cigarettes and checked each other out. The McDonald's was packed, as were four tapas bars. Seventeen-year-old Leticia Gonzalez said...
...first, no one was exactly sure why Wernher von Braun, 51, was visiting Argentina. His several lectures on the U.S. moon program were in such German-accented English that even Argentines who hablan inglés could hardly a word begreifen. But as it turned out, Wernher was there to listen, not talk. Argentine military and scientific brass had asked him down to hear all about South America's leading space program. Proudly, they explained that right now a mess of mice were being given extensive psychological and physiological tests so that the perfect 4-oz. moustronaut could...
These lines may look like the result of internationally-crossed wires-but they are really a 23-second sample of a new 15-minute radio program TIME has gotten up. It is called Aprendamos Inglés, and it aims to help people in Spanish America learn English painlessly-by letting them listen in on some informal talk between a North American called Joe Bishop and his South American friend, one Pepe Obispo...
...very real sense Aprendamos Inglés ("Let's Learn English") is a request program-for we might never have thought of the idea if so many important U.S. and Latin American officials had not written us about our Spanish-teaching program here in the U.S. (Among them were the Ambassadors of Panama, Venezuela and Uruguay, the Ministers of El Salvador, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, the Consul General of Cuba, several top-ranking radio members of the Rockefeller Committee, and scores of other dignitaries and just plain interested citizens.) And many of them asked if we could...
...America. It will be sponsored by the American Home Products Corp. of New York City as a public service in the hope that it will help draw the Americas closer together. For only one in about 43 Latin Americans speaks English now-and we like to think that Aprendamos Inglés will help teach our language to many more...