Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe and the U.S., Latin America and the Middle East, dirt-poor farmers and peasants whose forebears never dreamed of leaving the land are trekking to cities by the millions. Instead of finding the promised good life and good pay, most of them end up in a demoralized, debt-ridden limbo of menial jobs and ghetto housing. This contemporary demographic disaster is the subject of Voyage of Silence, a somber documentation of a Portuguese peasant's emigration to France. Produced by Philippe de Broca-a new wave filmmaker best known for frothy fantasy (That Man from Rio, The Five...
...Dictator Juan Perón came to power in 1946, toured the world's concert halls for nine years before returning home; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Buenos Aires. During his long exile, Castro led orchestras from Melbourne to Belgrade, brought his lean, thoroughly modern style to numerous Latin-flavored works, most notably the opera Proserpina and the Stranger, which premiered to a tumultuous ovation at Milan's La Scala...
Airlines, Salinger concentrates on helping the fund expand into new territory. Although there are 350 salesmen in 40 countries, 70% of the fund's sales so far have come from Latin America. Last week Salinger and his third wife, French-born Nicole, flew to Paris, where Pierre plans to live for the next year and a half while promoting the fund's European sales, which are thus far confined to West Germany...
Meanwhile, those "unconscious" imperialists, the American Presidents, were exercising the appropriate "Caesarian powers," including the right to initiate wars without asking Congress. As a result, believes De Riencourt, "the United States has gradually become a garrison state." Counting "Pentagon satellite military establishments" in Europe, Latin America and the Far East, De Riencourt reckons that the U.S. has the biggest army, by "relative size," since Rome...
Mein, 54, a career foreign-service officer with years of Latin American experience, was well known for his quiet professionalism. In keeping with his taste for unobtrusiveness, he had dismissed an armed escort assigned earlier this year. While his assassination, the first ever of a U.S. ambassador, naturally shocked Washington, Guatemalans were not so startled. Since civilian rule supplanted a rigid military regime in 1966, Communist and right-wing terrorists have killed some 2,000 people in their running crossfire-among them two U.S. military advisers, Army Colonel John Webber Jr. and Naval Lieut. Commander Ernest Munro, who were murdered...