Word: saffir
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...page English-language Times is reporting such stories as a survey of the new, incendiary rebel newspapers in Santo Domingo and an exposé of a cloak-and-dagger U.S. Army outfit in Chile that has ruffled feathers in the U.S. embassy. "In any given day," boasts Publisher Leonard Saffir, "the Times prints more news about Latin America than all the rest of the newspapers in the U.S. combined...
...Saffir concocted the idea of the paper over a drink at a United Nations cocktail party, where he met the Latin American journalist Jorge Losada, who is now the Times's editor in chief. After 13 years as editor of the Spanish-language Latin American newsmagazine Visión, Losada was convinced that U.S. businessmen, with roughly $10 billion in investments in Latin America, were hungry for more news from the land where their money is. And Saffir, a longtime I.N.S. foreign correspondent, who had brought out the highly profitable New York Standard during the 1963 newspaper strike...