Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cautious" we may be, and "old" we are, as you suggest in your excellent story on Peru [Aug. 5], but "packing our hags" in Latin America we surely are not. On the contrary, we are more active in more countries there than ever before. In 1961-65, our capital expenditures in Latin America totaled $73 million, an alltime high. This year they will be close to $30 million. Now that we have reached the $1 billion sales mark, our Latin American investment is a smaller percentage of our entire structure, and the "mix" has changed toward high-technology enterprises...
...fright." But Freud did not live in a modern apartment. People who do are subject to what Columbia University Urban Planner Charles Abrams calls "a new form of trespass, a new invasion of privacy." The Dickensian poor may have had to make a virtue of propinquity, and the Latin races have historically prized it, but the upper middle classes in the U.S. find unwanted intimacy irritating. Unseen, but all too perfectly heard, are domestic strife (and bliss), digestive strains, telephone bells ("Is it ours or theirs?"), new hi-fis and old TV commercials. Pounding on the wall is no solution...
Perhaps the answer is not to change newspaper style, but rather to encourage reporters to concentrate their reportorial energy on areas which, although not presently in the news, are potential areas of foreign policy involvement. Latin America, for example, is an area of great importance to the United States which is notably neglected by the press. Reporters interested in presenting the North American audience with a true picture of the Southern trouble spots could probably greatly influence our policies toward these areas...
Last week, after an angry outcry throughout Argentina and the rest of Latin America, Ongania called his first press conference on television and stuck by his decree, announcing plans to reorganize the entire educational system. Moving on to other "concrete guidelines" for his government, Ongania made a few other points. Tax evasion, smuggling, and profiteering by food distributors would be implacably suppressed. Within 60 days, he promised, administrators of all state-owned enterprises would come up with a program for cutting costs. What is more, some of the enterprises might be returned to private hands. For one thing, said Ongania...
...already forced dozens of ill-fed countries to start reshaping their pride-twisted economies. It has upset old notions of geopolitics. Most dramatic of all, it has virtually eaten up the perennial overproduction of U.S. agriculture, whose bounty now feeds one out of every 20 persons in Africa, Latin America and non-Communist Asia. The State Department last week told U.S. embassies to discourage requests for wheat because the nation must cut back such aid shipments by 25% this year...