Word: os
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farmers get top priority from three Venezuelan missions now in Europe. Next come technicians* (chemists, mechanics, carpenters, electricians), then professional men. Merchants without special skills are discouraged. Venezuelans prefer Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese to Slavs or Germans. Few Jews are admitted; caraqueños contend that they are almost as hard to assimilate as men & women from the U.S., tend to "pitch-their camps too near the Plaza Bolivar in the capital...
Mexicans crowded Mexico City's cypress-shaded Chapultepec Park to mark the 100th anniversary of Los Niños Heroes. Even after President Truman's popular gesture in visiting Los Niños monument last March, it was a touchy moment. Some Americans and Mexicans thought that to send West Point cadets to last week's ceremony was a big mistake...
...week's end porteños looked toward the sprawling Army headquarters at Campo de Mayo outside the city, where many violent political changes in Argentina have begun & ended, told each other: "There's a smell of gunpowder at the Campo...
...given conversation a new spice. For weeks, shopgirls riding the crowded subway of Buenos Aires had aired their views. "I don't care what she was," said one. "I just hope she can do what she promises." Pomaded young executives in the Calle Florida and stolid porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) sipping tea in the Boston Bar rehashed the question of Eva's position. "I don't mean to be snobbish. I don't mind her humble origin in the least; many of us descended from poor immigrants, but there are other considerations...
...shivering high-school and university students were the only figures moving on the streets of Quito one morning last week. The students were there to take the first scientifically organized census in Ecuador's history. The police and soldiers were there to keep all other Quiteños in their homes until the census was completed...