Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Study the possibility of a Latin American Bank...
...Work toward the gradual establishment of a regional Latin American market...
Some back-home newspapers blasted the conference. "Fiasco!" snorted Brazil's Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand. But reactions often combined realism with optimism. In Uruguay, the daily El Plata joked about the U.S. reluctance to go in for Latin American giveaways. "The U.S. knows only too well the similarity between Latin American economic administration and sacks with holes or barrels without bottoms." On vacation in Newport, President Eisenhower examined the conference's results, reflected most delegates' reactions by calling them "an outstanding statement of the principles and objectives of inter-American economic cooperation...
...sang the Gregorian chant Veni Creator Spiritus (some priestly voices were off key; the Jesuits have never been famed for their singing), then briskly moved to a large, barnlike room and took their seats on plain wooden benches facing writing desks. From a raised table they were greeted-in Latin, the order's normal business language -by alabaster-pale, 67-year-old Jean-Baptiste Janssens, 27th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, also known (like his predecessors) as "the Black Pope...
With the help of his wife, his daughters and a staff of twelve. Ponti not only designs everything from basins to buildings, but also puts out an arts and architecture magazine called Dornus (Latin for home), which has an international circulation of 40,000. "Father's enthusiasm is contagious," his daughter Letitia says, explaining how it all gets done. "If he is thinking of a new water basin, not one of us could just sit down and forget water basins. You just have to set your mind to what father is thinking." This in itself is a formidable assignment...