Word: lima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they assert. "It can be summed up in one sentence: EAT LESS THAN SIXTY GRAMS OF CARBOHYDRATE A DAY. That's all there is to it." (Sixty grams are about two ounces.) At first, say the authors, the dieter will have to consult the tables to avoid ordering lima beans (15 gm. of carbohydrate to an average serving) instead of green beans (a mere 3 gm.). Afterward, they claim, it will be easy to run down the menu and pick poached filet of sole, champagne sauce-"perhaps one gram for the flour in the sauce; highly recommended"-or filet...
CHARLES R. KAMM Lima, Peru...
Last week a Texas delegation headed by Edward Marcus of Dallas' Neiman-Marcus department store returned from Lima, where the Texans investigated joint-venture possibilities with Peruvian businessmen. And a group of New Jersey civic leaders is just back from a visit to Brazil's underdeveloped north east state of Alagoas, looking for ways to help Brazilians help themselves. In one village the North Americans promised assistance for ten self-help projects, starting with a powerful pump for an irrigation well. Arthur Byrnes, assistant Alianza director for Brazil, explains: "This program is small in terms of dollars...
...make 1964 the best year ever for Peru's economy. Exports-chiefly fish meal, cotton, copper, sugar and iron ore-jumped 25% to a record $665 million, the G.N.P. rose an impressive 12%, and the sol (3.7?) remained one of South America's most stable currencies. On Lima's outskirts, General Motors is completing Peru's first auto-assembly plant, a $5,000,000 operation that will enable Peruvians to buy autos without paying duties that go to 110% on most U.S. models. Fourteen other automakers are planning to set up shop in Peru...
...just an other U.S. giveaway project. "It seemed well-meaning," as one top Latino puts it, "but rather Utopian and probably futile." Now, at last, that view seems to have changed. Last week, as diplomats and economists from a score of nations gathered in the Peruvian capi tal of Lima for the third annual full-dress review of the Alianza, there was encouraging evidence that most Latin American nations now accept its goals and are working to achieve them. Said Colombia's Carlos Sanzde Santamaria, astute chairman of the Alianza's key planning committee: "We have made great...