Word: latinizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike neighboring Brazil and Argentina, tiny Uruguay is a fat and tolerant country where almost anyone can enjoy the good life. Its 2,700,000 people are among Latin America's best fed, best dressed, best paid, best educated and most pampered. Fully one in every four workers is employed by the government, which gives them 44 holidays a year and retirement at full pay as early as 55. Theaters in cosmopolitan Montevideo offer such lively fare as Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy and Strindberg's Miss Julia; in the city's quiet little tearooms...
...labor unions reacted so strongly to Gestido's austerity program, going on a series of strikes, that Gestido declared a modified state of siege, prohibiting all calls to strike. Dominated by Communists and encouraged by the huge Soviet embassy in Montevideo-Russia's biggest in Latin America-the 250,000-member National Confederation of Workers last week threatened more strikes. As a starter, 145,000 students, teachers and administrative school personnel went on strike, and 18,000 persons poured into downtown Montevideo for a noisy, anti-government demonstration. If matters get out of hand, Gestido stands ready...
Harvard will permit the Boston Latin-Boston English football game to be played at the Stadium again this Thanksgiving, but the University has taken precautions to prevent a recurrence of last year's post-game rioting in Harvard Square...
...Special buses will run to and from Boston Latin and Boston English to transport students on the day of the game...
...further precaution has been the scheduling of the game at least an hour before the Cambridge Latin-Rindge Tech football game begins. Last year, both games ended within a half hour of each other, and students converged on the Square from two directions...