Word: montevideo
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...broad, busy streets of Montevideo last week it was hard to detect any signs of malaise. Montevideans looked well-fed, as usual, and stores were crowded with customers. Perhaps in no other Latin American capital were sidewalks so conspicuously free of beggars and ragamuffins. The faces in the crowd, as big-city crowds go, showed a high average of cheer...
...woman and child in the country.* Wool, meat and hides, making up some 75% of Uruguay's exports, keep a country that is notably poor in mineral endowment near the top of Latin America's per-capita-income list. To subsidize the urban welfare state, the Montevideo-dominated national government takes a cut on every pound of wool, overtaxes the ranchers, forces them to sell beef cheap for city consumption...
With little more than a month to go before the national convention, the Democratic Baby last week was uncommonly quiet and still. Party leaders nibbled cucumber sandwiches in Illinois, collected chigger bites in Iowa, stood at attention for the Uruguayan national anthem in Montevideo (Minn.), smiled at each other across a table in Manhattan's "21." At national committee headquarters, staff members were calmly looking beyond the convention, planning to conduct the fall campaign with the help of Madison Avenue's Norman, Craig & Kummel, Inc., the advertising agency that made the Maidenform bra a symbol of the American...
...infuriating that he arrested our correspondents, banned the magazine for six years (1947-53). But that did not keep TIME out of the country. Our circulation in Uruguay, across the River Plate, trebled. Argentines crossed the river to smuggle TIME into their country; one woman regularly went from Montevideo to Buenos Aires with the magazine in her girdle...
Ensign Wilson's feat impressed even Uruguayans, themselves no mean trenchermen. Montevideo's daily La Manarta called him a "hero of the cold...