Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he collected or sent through the years. He even includes his certificate of commission as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps and a lengthy wire to Franklin Roosevelt demanding an audience for the purpose of winning a draft deferment during World War II (Duncan had unfinished work in Latin America...
FREDERIC J. GRUBER; Harvard Student Agencies Inc., president; Junior Usher; Summer Traveling Fellowship; Committee on Latin American Studies; Harvard College Scholarship; Combined Charities Drive...
Shoot Now, Pay Later. Actually, Latin American nations spend only $1.7 billion a year, or about 12% of their total government budgets on arms, compared with 55% for the U.S. and 25.6% for the European NATO countries. But in an area of the world where the necessity for social reform so far outweighs military needs, even that small percentage appears excessive. And because of that, Washington, which supplies $1.2 billion a year in Latin American aid, is discouraging unnecessary arms purchases among its southern neighbors. As President Johnson warned in a recent Alliance for Progress address, such purchases "take clothes...
Undaunted, Latin Americans simply take their escalations elsewhere. "If the U.S. is not willing to sell us the planes we need," shrugged Peru's President Fernando Balaunde Terry, "we will buy them from any other country willing to sell to us." And possibly cheaper, since Europe is hungry for the business. The Swedes are offering the Saab Draken fighter for some $700,000, compared with $900,000 for Northrop's slower (Mach-1.3) F-5 Freedom Fighter (see U.S. BUSINESS). Brazil claims that five-year terms are the best it can get in the U.S.; the British...
...incisional hernia such as the one from which President Johnson is now suffering is a rupture (Latin: hernia) or break in the muscular abdominal wallIn the President's case, the break came about an inch to the right of the scar where the surgeons cut last year to remove his gall bladder. It is at the point where plastic drain tubes were left in place for four days after that operation. Such hernias are by no means rare but no one knows exactly how common they...