Word: medellin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colombia, also hit by an epidemic, issued a similar call, got 90,000 children immunized. The schedule: three doses spaced three weeks apart. In Medellin doctors are trying a three-in-one vaccine combination for the newborn, will wait to see how it works before extending the one-dose method to older children...
Farm-and-convert evangelism is the idea of Minnesota Lutheran Maurice Sand, 54, who first set up a self-sustaining mission in Medellin, Colombia. Returning to the U.S.. he started organizing an interdenominational mission of "Colaborers." He heard about jungled Parana State, visited it, decided it was a good site for a beginning. "I thought we could set up a little community of, say, ten American families with tractors and trucks to support the mission with coffee and crops." he said. Some 200 U.S. families heartily agreed, bought tracts at $30 an acre for uncleared land in Paran...
...South American by birth. Sert came to the United States in 1939. He has had extensive experience in long-range planning, having designed the master plans for the cities of Lima, Peru; Medellin, Cali, and Bogota, Colombia...
...long-range policy for freeing the economy from its exclusive dependence on coffee. Because of this pernicious one-crop system, Colombia has been forced to import chocolate for home consumption, despite the fact that she was once the world's leading producer of cacao. Though she has at Medellin one of the world's most efficient textile mills, Colombia does not raise enough cotton for her own needs. Despite a 95 million dollar loan from the World Bank for highway and railroad construction, she still lacks efficient transportation...
Unsavory Distinction. The one Colombian paper that got the story into print, Medellin's responsible El Colombiano, was closed down by the device of moving the government's censorship office to an out-of-town military post, where editors were ordered to bring all copy. Since the same move shut two other Medellin papers, Rojas Pinilla, who has blotted out all of Bogotá's oldest and best dailies, briefly achieved the unsavory distinction of silencing all of Colombia's best-known papers. After thinking it over, the Medellin dailies doggedly submitted to the awkward censorship...