Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Government by consent of the people is gaining in Latin America...
...government" to replace his. By contrast, the U.S. State Department has sometimes had an unhappy knack of appearing to back the dictators. Former Inter-American Affairs Chief Henry Holland publicly hailed Peron as a "great Argentine." Secretary of State Dulles took time during one of his two visits to Latin America to pay a courtesy call on Colombia's Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. since kicked out. The recent U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. beaming Dempster Mclntosh. was photographed in the foolish act of making Venezuela's Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez an "honorary member of the U.S. submarine fleet...
...nation has not looked bad; Aramburu admired the U.S. Army's "democratic spirit." and the Venezuelan revolt was touched off by U.S.-trained Air Force officers who learned to like U.S. political institutions. But a wry comment is heard around Latin America of late: "Why can't the State Department be as democratic as the Vatican...
...TRADERS are busy signing deals with Latin America. Argentina will get heavy industrial equipment from Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Rumania, paying off satellites' debts for earlier imports of Argentine beef and hides. Brazil is considering $400 million Soviet trade agreement that could ease Brazil's coffee surplus...
...Emilie du Chatelet was soft-eyed, handsome, highly sexed-and the mother of three children. She had a fluent knowledge of Latin, Italian and English -not Spanish, because someone had told her that "the only book in that language was frivolous," i.e., Don Quixote. Her scientific and mathematical knowledge surpassed Voltaire's. Together, they were destined to change intellectual history, Voltaire by championing Newton in France, Emilie by helping to open the border to the philosophy of Germany's Leibnitz. Voltaire was high-strung, always ailing, always in hot water with the authorities; Emilie was "strong...