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...splinters' choices of numbers are determined largely by sentiment. A big faction of Colorados picked 14 because their party always sweeps Montevideo's Election District 14. Batlle Berres' even bigger group chose 15 because (except for unlucky 13) it was the closest thing to 14. Two splinters that regard themselves as friendly opponents of the 145 and the 155 took the numbers 1414 and 1515. Other Colorados chose 65 in honor of the revolution of 1865, and a Blanco faction picked 97 as a memorial gesture to the revolution...
Trade Mission. Guided tours for businessmen seeking Latin American markets are being sponsored by Pan American-Grace Airways. The 30-day, 13,500-mile trips are being scheduled to give executives time to look over markets and line up distributors in Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, La Paz, Lima, Quito, Panama City, etc. Price: about...
...Mexico, whose complacent view of Guatemala as a little country going through a period of revolutionary reform was abruptly upset last month when her southern neighbor received 2,000 tons of Communist arms and ammunition. A formal call for the conference, to meet around July 1, probably in Montevideo, is expected this week...
This week, in diplomatic circles, there was talk that the Latin American nations would meet under the banner of the Organization of American States in Montevideo late this month, to talk about "collective action" against Guatemala...
...newborn infants in a nursery at Uruguay's Pereyra Rossell Maternity Hospital in Montevideo turned blue last week. Doctors had no trouble diagnosing the mass illness as a hemoglobin disorder. But finding the cause was another matter. Meanwhile, as 15 of the babies seemed near death, every oxygen tent in the city was ordered to the hospital, and each infant's blood was completely changed by transfusion...