Word: pacifico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia Kaiser-Frazer agency one day last year, swarthy, greying Joe Pacifico heard about a new ECA plan. To encourage U.S. investments abroad and help European recovery, ECA would guarantee the conversion of profits into dollars for any projects that it approved. Joe remembered the old stone quarry near Naples which he had helped his father work as a boy. His brother Eugene and sister Carmela still ran it with primitive methods and materials...
...type a hunt & peck letter to ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, telling him about the quarry and his relatives. Joe proposed to send U.S. equipment to the quarry, boost its output and sell stone in the U.S. as well as Italy. Last week, after eleven months of international red tape, Joe Pacifico became the first U.S. businessman to win an industrial guarantee on the continent of Europe...
Leather-toughened and calloused by the jungle, wild-haired and wild-eyed, Pacifico Batista a month ago burst from the wilderness where he had hidden 15 years and scared an old crone into hysterics by his mating gestures (TIME, Sept. 27). Last week, from the little Argentine border village of Itacuarare, where Batista was captured by five policemen and an awestruck populace, came a picture of El Tarzan...
...jungle village of Itacuarare live gentle, simple folk who gather herbs and mate in the forests, do a little innocent smuggling across the nearby Brazilian border and often wag their heads over the legend of Pacifico Batista. Fifteen years ago handsome young Pacifico quarreled with his dark-eyed Itacuarare sweetheart, disappeared into the jungle and was seen no more...
Crouching in his cell, he at first flung his food away, spoke only in grunts. But by coaxing and offerings of raw meat, the villagers last week finally got a few words of broken Spanish and Portuguese out of him. It was indeed Pacifico Batista. His sweetheart had long since left the village. As for Pacifico, all he wanted was to get back to the jungle...