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...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...
Hard Times. Some of the worried aristocrats in Merida's little country club might well have concluded that this was where they came in. In twelve years after World War I, International Harvester Co. and other U.S. makers of binder twine used war surpluses to force henequen prices down from 20? to 2? a Ib. The millionaires of Mérida, whose fortunes kept castles in Spain and France as well as along Mérida's broad Paseo de Montejo, went broke. The Cámaras turned their mansion at Mérida into a hotel...
...Mexican subsidiary, Compañia Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A., which protested loudly against the operating permit granted to Braniff by the Minister of Communications. When protests failed, C.M.A. resorted to deeds. The resulting intercompany battle that marked the first round-trip Braniff flight from Mexico City to Merida was in the best swashbuckling tradition of business below the border...
Rough Flights. At Merida, a cavalcade of automobiles carrying a welcoming committee of local bigwigs was ignobly stopped at the airport gates. Armed guards once warned Braniff employes that they would be arrested for trespassing if they attempted to enter the field to service their plane. At Vera Cruz, where a Braniff plane arrived after dark, C.M.A. fieldmen refused to switch on the landing lights. At both Merida and Vera Cruz, Braniff passengers were forced to use the planes' cargo boxes in place of landing stages. They toted their own baggage, picked their way through barbed-wire fences...