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...stock salesmen-the portfolio kind-know that back-country men have money too, much of it stashed away in drawers or secret hiding places. They have learned how to rope and brand it. When a securities salesman stopped his car outside a doctor's office in Córdoba province recently, an old man in rags stuck his head through the car's open window. "How much are the Ledesma shares?" he asked. The surprised salesman quickly quoted a price. "I'll take 7,000," the man replied, and produced a bank statement that proved he could...
...administrators: authority. For professors: teaching. For students: learning." Brave sentiments for an educator in Latin America, where many state-run universities are little more than incubators for budding young revolutionaries. But the speaker was Rector Jorge R. Camargo of Argentina's Catholic University of Córdoba, and his words describe a notable trend in Latin America: the rise of Roman Catholic universities devoted exclusively to edu cation, where the signs on the bulletin board are mimeographed class schedules, not student calls to arms...
...universities, with some 10,000 students. Today there are 31, and their total enrollment is close to 50,000. Brazil counts ten (v. four ten years ago); Argentina has six, all founded since the fall of Dictator Juan Peron in 1955; Mexico has four; Chile has two. Córdoba's Catholic University itself was founded in 1958, yet its library has already grown to 55,000 volumes, its enrollment to 1,200 and its faculty...
...come by; qualified instructors are scarce. The schools count heavily on aid from the church, from wealthy parents, and from private businessmen. In Venezuela, the Creole Foundation, formed by Creole Petroleum Corp., recently contributed $50,000 to Caracas' Catholic University. This month the vice rector of Córdoba's Catholic University is on a fund-raising drive in the U.S. and Europe. Among other things, he is discussing a $2,000,000 loan from a private company in California so Córdoba can start work on a new campus...
...auto tires and heavy steel to photo paper, vermouth and sewing machines. Since 1948, Italian companies have poured $1 billion into Argentine industry, and current investment runs to $1,000,000 a month. Fiat alone has put $140 million into its automotive and truck-tractor plants in Córdoba; the Techint industrial complex outside Buenos Aires represents another $75 million in Italian capital. In 'the export market, Olivetti Argentina is now selling typewriters and calculating machines to Peru and Turkey, Gilera motorcycles from Argentina are buzzing around the U.S., and Fiat electrical motors-also made in Argentina-will...