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Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox Jr. and Professor of Education Noel F. McGinn, are two of the three directors of the Nuevo Instituto of Centro Americas, located in Estali, a small city near Nicaragua's border with Honduras...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Professors Set Up Nicaraguan School | 5/4/1983 | See Source »

...there are also 125,000 Indians living in Chiapas, and they were what made the area "fabulously interesting" for ethnographic work. For the past thirty years, the Mexican government has been trying to "Ladinoize" the Indians, and Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI) has mobilized several studies of culture change in the Indian villages all over Mexico since...

Author: By Carol J. Greenhouse, | Title: More Than a Club, It's A Research Community | 3/22/1969 | See Source »

Since 1953 a professor at Harvard, Lida earlier taught at the Instituto Nacional del Profesorado and the Colegio Nacional in Buenos Aires and at the University of La Plata. From 1947 to 1953 he was director of the Center of Literary Studies of the Colegio de Mexico, in Mexico City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lida to Assume Professorship Of French, Spanish | 1/18/1968 | See Source »

...Brazil's provisional budget for 1949, Congress considered an extraordinary item: $2,000,000 for the Instituto Agronômico do Norte. The item is extraordinary not only because it is more than three times as large as ever before, but because it is a $2,000,000 vote of confidence in one man, Felisberto Camargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Wait for the Weeping Wood | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Hope for a Future. The one hope for the Amazon is to grow rubber trees in plantations. Henry Ford tried it and failed. His plantations succumbed to leaf rot. When Ford sold out for a nominal price to the Brazilian government, the Instituto Agronômico took over where he left off. Today Dr. Camargo has turned Fordlandia into a plantation for growing hardwood trees and cacao, and breeding water buffalo. But 90 miles downstream at Belterra, he has 2,225,000 healthy rubber trees growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Wait for the Weeping Wood | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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