Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rugged beauty of the cliff-crowned bay, the shiny glamour of the hotels, the cheers of the people, and in the friendliness of the President, Adolfo López Mateos. President Eisenhower's trip, occasioned by his desire to demonstrate the U.S.'s deep respect for Latin American solidarity, was, in fact, a cheery and most productive political journey...
High Dives & Dancers. That afternoon, Ike and his host got away from the crowds, boarded President López Mateos white, 168-ft. yacht Sotavento, cruised for four hours in the glistening bay as they talked business with their aides (one U.S. staffer: Latin American...
Brazilian newspapers applauded the news last week that President Eisenhower had picked Clare Boothe Luce to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Brazil-the U.S.'s first woman envoy to a Latin American country. Sometime journalist (managing editor of Vanity Fair at 29), playwright (The Women), movie author and scenarist (Come to the Stable) and Congresswoman (from Connecticut, 1943-47), Clare Luce, 55, served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy for 3½ eventful years-1953-56. During her service in Rome, Communism's threat to Italy was decisively broken, and she helped settle the explosive old quarrel between...
...Ambassador to Brazil, she will succeed able Career Diplomat Ellis O. Briggs, 59. Only foreign diplomat to visit every one of vast Brazil's 25 states and territories, polished, amiable Old Latin America Hand Briggs built up a priceless fund of good will for the U.S. during his 2½ years in Brazil. Judged by her performance in Italy, Clare Luce can be depended on to add to the fund...
...owners put out the fortnightly Vision (circ. 113,315), a notably uncontentious Spanish-language business-news magazine that is flown into 19 Latin American countries. Visão (circ. 45,886), a sister publication to Visión, is a Portuguese-language news weekly in Brazil. In addition, the company has a half interest in Semana, a news weekly published in Bogota, Colombia, owns the profitable business-pamphleteering ("Just Between Office Girls") National Foremen's Institute...