Word: merida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though his record as a pilot was spotty, Infante was fond of flying and even owned a major interest in an air-freight line. One morning last week he set out from Merida, Yucatan as copilot on one of his transports, a converted B-24 carrying a load of fish. Three minutes after takeoff, the plane dived into a house, killing Infante, the pilot, the mechanic and two teen-agers in the house...
...Portrait of Ana Merida, a ballet dancer...
...schoolboys went to confession and Communion before they boarded the chartered DC-3 that was to take them to Caracas for the holidays. The lads, aged 9 to 17, sons of prominent Caracas families, were students at Father Vélaz' Colegio de San Jose at Merida in western Venezuela; two were nephews of President German Suárez Flamerich. As they walked out to the plane in the midday heat, strapping, Chilean-born Father Vélaz waved goodbye...
...stream of settlers is changing the face of the country. Almost every Venezuelan town now has its Italian barbershop and restaurant, its German-speaking innkeeper. San Cristobal has a Russian photographer, Merida a Russian butcher. Near Turen, about 175 miles southwest of the capital, farmers from Andalusia, Tuscany and the Ukraine are tilling new lands cleared for them by government bulldozers. In time, Venezuela hopes, such immigrant pioneers may supply the eggs, fruit and other foodstuffs that the country now imports from...