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...labor's man-in-Latin-America; of a heart attack; in Mexico City. An Italian-born veteran of the I.L.G.W.U., Romualdi spent 16 years as the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s ambassador to Latin American workers, supplying expertise and playing a key anti-Communist role by setting up the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers, whose affiliated members today number 28 million v. 600,000 in Communist-dominated unions...
Such pressure has built up in favor of birth control and abortion that last week the continent convened its first inter-American conference on population policies. Among many revealing statements, the most searingly candid came from Colombia's President Carlos Lleras Restrepo...
Revenue & Relief. Recently, at a ceremony on the Jupiá dam site, Brazilian President Arthur da Costa e Silva (TIME cover, April 21) was presented with a loan of $34 million from the Inter-American Development Bank. But 70% of the Urubupungá project was home financed. In fact, a reason for building two dams instead of one was to keep finances within reach: getting Jupiá into production fast will relieve the power shortage even while it produces revenue to build the second...
...Rockefeller's Office of Inter-American Affairs. He earned a commission as a naval aviator, served four years on antisubmarine patrol but never sighted a sub. While in service he married Mary Louise Phillips, a Vassar art major he had met at a postfootball party at Yale. She quit in her senior year to marry him; they now have five children.* Eager for a career in public affairs, he entered Harvard Law School in 1945, because "law schools seem to attract an extraordinary number of the people who have the highest potential of each generation." He made the Harvard...
Lincoln Gordon, LL.D., U.S. Assistant Secretary State for Inter-American Affairs and president-elect of Johns Hopkins University...