Word: os
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexican government exchanged notes of sympathy, and plans were made for an impressive joint funeral. But, sad to say, the common fate of the 16 did not contribute to international understanding. Instead, U.S.-Mexican friendship, which had blossomed steadily since Harry Truman laid a wreath on the Niños Heróes monument (TIME, March 17, 1947), was shaken to its roots...
...Caracas they had invited representatives from most of the nations of the world. Somewhat to the Caraqueños' surprise, nearly all of them came, and the city (pop. 266,000) was hard put to it to take care of so many V.I.P.s. All told, 37 nations sent representatives. The U.S. sent down an aircraft carrier and a destroyer, a planeload of diplomats and generals, and Poet Archibald MacLeish to represent President Truman...
...Venezuela's capital, the report spread quickly : Caracas was going to be bombed. Squads of firemen took up emergency stations. The National Guard was called out. Hundreds of families left the city for the country. Caraqueños, who have never known an air raid, need not have been panicky. President Romulo Betancourt was on top of the situation, and besides, the bombing was not due until Feb. 15, the inauguration day of his successor, Novelist Romulo Gallegos...
...jungle area that is twice as vast as the Mississippi basin. Few stayed. Twice the Amazon has been tapped-by the rubber boom at the turn of the century and the mad rubber hunt during World War II. The first left a high-domed opera house at Manáos and the 226-mile single-track Madeira-Mamoré Railway. The World War II boom established some of the beginnings of modern sanitation and medicine in a vast wilderness inhabited by some 200,000 people, most of them Indians...
Legs Visible. On the broad boulevards of the Argentine capital last week, many a piropo was whispered, for spring, although a bit late, had finally come. The dry weather had ill portents for the grain crop, but if Porteños were worried, they did not show it. The city's parks, well shaded with ombú, palm, ceiba, and shiny-leafed magnolias, were crowded with lovers, fashionable ladies with fashionable dogs, plain people out for a stroll. Many a piropeador audibly admired the spring styles which spurned the New Look and kept legs before the male eye. Buenos...