Word: paz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Paris many years ago, after a "Communist-inspired" strike in his mines had been put down by soldiers, Bolivian Ambassador Patiño cabled to an assistant in La Paz: "Arturito, cause to be opened the doors of my house. I want the people to see the beauties it contains." The stolid Indians looked at the sculptured halls, the marble bathtubs, the Renaissance gilding, the tapestry-hung walls. They grew angry, scribbled insulting verses, pointed caricatures. The palace doors were closed and have remained shut since...
...Bolivian journalists are Luis Zavala, editor of La Razon; Frederico Guteierrez Granier, publisher of La Ultima Hora, all of La Paz...
...Prensa's Co-Director Tito Gainza Paz asserts that 1) his paper has no agreement with anyone "either to print news or to refrain from printing news"; 2) despite severe newsprint shortage, it still prints 15 to 24 columns of foreign news. As of the present, however, Editor James's claim for the Times is doubtless correct. Certainly the Times has one of the world's outstanding coverages of foreign news...
Finally, a lot more headaches and $250,000 later, the La Paz bobbed up again-and stayed afloat. Much of her juicy cargo turned out to be intact, including $50,000 worth of Johnnie Walker Black Label
Nonetheless, white-haired W. R. Lovett -whose doctor once prescribed golf for his jitters-thinks his six-month saga was more of a strain than one man can afford to put on his nervous system. Whatever he gets out of it, the La Paz, he now says firmly, is his "one and only salvage operation...