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...shores of County Down, the 49 were laughing and shouting again, playing ping-pong and tennis, swimming, milking cows and feeding chickens. Some tended vegetable gardens, taking particular care of the garlic crop. Others, exhausted from play, lay red-cheeked and panting in the shade of verónica shrubs...
Owner of a big hacienda called "Chiclin," and once owner of La Crénica, the Vice President once kept three desks in his enormous office. His countrymen report that a caller might be addressed as follows: "Have you, Sir, come to see His Excellency, Rafael Larco Herrera, Vice President of Peru? Or have you come to see Señior Larco Herrera, Owner and Publisher of La Crénica? Or perhaps you have come to see Don Rafael Larco Herrera, Director and General Manager of Hacienda Chiclin." According to the answer, he would sit down...
This blanket conservatism was proper enough. But it understated the long-term outlook for some of the company's juiciest properties. I.T. & T. has poured $62,000,000 into Compañia Telefónica Nacional de Españia, famed in the Spanish Revolution for its indestructible Madrid office building.* Telefónica has been doing all right, although not for its parent. The state of I.T. & T.'s $40,000,000 investment in the European properties of International Standard Electric is more obscure: its manufacturing plants in Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France are now presumably...
...into the whole Nicaraguan affair and a complete reformulation of U, S. policy in Latin America. At this juncture, Democrats fell into dispute among themselves as to whether the U. S. Marines were fighting for Wall Street or Justice. Administration men seized the chance to urge further shelving of Nica- ragua. But the Foreign Relations Committee began its hearings. Senator La Follette introduced a sweeping resolution of the kind favored by Senator Borah. A Nicaraguan Inquiry loomed...