Word: pan-american
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...been abundantly supplied with books about Latin America by U.S. writers. But The Green Continent is the first attempt to give U.S. readers a "comprehensive picture of the lands and people below the Rio Grande" by Latin-American writers. As such it is a notable-and readable -contribution to Pan-American understanding. It is an anthology edited by, a Colombian sociologist (for two years a visiting professor in the U.S.) of 33 selections from Latin-American history and fiction of the past 100 years. It tells about Latin America from the 16th Century to the present, is filled with heroes...
...policy. But it was clear that Pogue, who favors plenty of competition, had Presidential approval to hand out enough franchises to assure competition on international routes. This was direct evidence that the Administration is steadily pushing into the background the so-called "chosen-instrument" policy, Juan Trippe's Pan-American program (TIME, Nov. 8). Eventually, of course, Congress, not CAB, must make the final decision on "chosen instrument" v. free-for-all competition. Pogue's action also meant that the U.S. will not lag in the coming international air fight...
...suffered a severe diplomatic defeat. The Argentine Government had shown real strength. Never, at week's end, had the U.S. Pan-American policy been in sorer straits...
Three weeks ago, at the Inter-American Students Conference in Santiago, Chile, the Argentine students had repudiated the Ramirez regime, called for a break with Germany. Last week they went on strike against the Government's dismissal of university professors who had signed a Pan-American solidarity manifesto. The movement rapidly spread to all but one of Argentina's six universities, included 80% of the nation's students. They ran Ramirez' policemen ragged...
...More coffee (stocks on hand rose to 3,000,000 bags, tripling the supply five months ago; the Pan-American Coffee Bureau recommended cutting the ration period for one stamp from three to two weeks, predicted it would soon be slashed to a week...