Word: latino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessary reforms. But a fortnight ago, back from a trip through Latin America, one of the Kennedy advisers who helped shape the Alliance said sadly: "I've got to report that the Alliance is not working yet. We've got to light a gigantic bonfire under the Latino ruling classes, and we've got to do it immediately. We had expected the Latins to respond, and they promised they would, but with few exceptions [Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador] they've done nothing-they're waiting...
Goode, who was Bexar County's Republican chairman from 1956 to 1961, was handicapped by a flat speaking manner that was no match for Gonzalez' Latino effervescence. But his unabashed conservatism appealed mightily to many voters...
Bonds of Pressure. The propaganda that the tourists absorb about "great leaps forward" is somewhat dissipated by what the visiting Latino can see. But there is no denying the peasantry, and the revolution, and at least a superficial resemblance to much of Latin America...
...special projects outside the normal scope of banking, e.g., roads in Bolivia. Regardless of what currency the special loans are made in. they can be made repayable partly or wholly in the currency of the borrowing nation. Interest on normal loans will be a maximum of 6%, low by Latino standards; on special loans the rate will be as little as 3%. The new bank bears little beneath-the-façade resemblance to the other development outfits that the U.S. is caught up in. Public Law 480 sells U.S. surplus agricultural products for local currencies, then lends back...
...Buenos Aires on his first Latino concert tour, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Richard Tucker was booked for six performances. To his horror he soon developed a sore throat and then, far worse, lost his voice entirely. To round out the nightmare, Argentine doctors at first could not detect what ailed him. After two days of near-mute anxiety. Tucker was ready to pack and go home. At last, however, it was determined that Trencherman Tucker had wolfed down a plate of scrambled eggs with a hidden ingredient-a chip of enamel that had lodged in his throat and sabotaged his larynx...