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...after President Kennedy's stirring speech announcing the Alianza para el Progrcso, and a year after it was solemnly formalized by 20 hemisphere nations at Punta del Este, the program is in trouble. Latin Americans complain that the promised aid flows slowly. U.S. planners are discouraged by the manana attitude of many Latin American governments on the reciprocal social and economic reforms needed to make the U.S. aid dollars effective. Everyone realizes that there has been too much talk about what the Alliance was going to do, and not enough hard work on how to achieve those high ambitions...
Fort Worth, Casa Manana: Holiday in Mexico featuring the Folklorico troupe, 60 of Mexico's top singers, dancers and musicians, in its U.S. debut...
Rhinestone Yo-Yos. COMPRE HOY Y PAGUE MANANA! shouts a huge sign atop Sears, Roebuck's mammoth Caracas department store: BUY TODAY AND PAY TOMORROW! On time payments, women in pipeless hillside shanties buy U.S.-made washing machines, and happily lug water in buckets on their heads to fill them. Specialty shops sell canned Spanish cuttlefish, rhinestone-studded yo-yos, TV sets and a potent local liquor disarmingly called La Economica. The 4,000 millionaires who set "two Cadillacs in every garage" as their standard enjoy such diverse luxuries as art collections, a drive-in that serves chilled martinis...
...Uvalde, Texas, former Vice President John Nance Garner, 83, invited the city commissioners to a meeting. Said he: "I'm not a manana man, and I want to do something now." Then he deeded to the city his two-story home with six square blocks of land, to be used "as a library or a museum or any way the city wants." The gift was in memory of his wife Ettie, who died...
Benton's refusal marked the fourth television offer rejected by the Pudding. Three previous offers were made for the last two shows, "Tomorrow Is Manana" and "Heart of Gold...