Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What do you see as the major problems of Latin America? How would you go about assisting Latin America in solving its problems? Would you continue the Alliance for Progress...
...political courage." The general was no less pleased with the choice of Paris as the site for the Washington-Hanoi negotiations. Then came France's May riots, which shook the Gaullist monolith and weakened the franc; the Shrivers deplaned as students were battling police by night in the Latin Quarter. As the pro-De Gaulle newspaper Paris-Presse observed, "M. Shriver started from scratch at a time when France was making a clean sweep of the past." The assassination of Robert Kennedy evoked French sympathy for his sister Eunice Shriver. Finally, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia abruptly ended...
...thirties you guys used to intervene a lot in Latin America. What does the historical establishment have to say to that?" The professor, eager now. This is education...
When Cushing resigns as cardinal, it is likely that he will go to Latin America as an ordinary missionary-priest--a desire which he has often voiced in the past...
After starting in Buenos Aires as a telephone lineman at 25¢ an hour, he worked into the tobacco business, importing Turkish and Bulgarian blends that became immensely popular in Latin America. Three years later, he had saved $20,000; by the age of 23, his tobacco had made him a dollar millionaire. Then came the Depression, and with an eye for a bargain and a hankering for the sea (Odysseus was always his hero, Ithaca his spiritual homeland), Onassis began buying merchant ships. From Canadian National Railways, he purchased half a dozen vessels in 1930 at $20,000 apiece. Each...