Word: salta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mechanic). But the boldest type was reserved for the Gálvez brothers, Oscar and Juan, who were whisking around dangerous hairpin turns as if they had designed them. Oscar, in his red Ford with Viva Perón painted on it, won the first leg from B.A. to Salta, and then the second and third legs. Argentine fans, who take auto racing as seriously as football and politics, nicknamed Oscar El Aguilucho, the Young Eagle...
...people of the region have loudly demanded a trans-Andean railway; for more than a quarter of a century they have been building it. Last week they had it. A coca-chewing Indian had slung a sledge, a last spike had bitten into an iron-hard quebracho tie, and Salta in Argentina was linked to Antofagasta in Chile...
Even though the track-standard gauge all the way-had been laid, no train had made the estimated 30-hour trip from Salta to Antofagasta. That would wait until next week, when, on the 27th anniversary of its first construction, the new Trans-Andean railway would be officially inaugurated. At the ceremony, no one would cheer louder than the desert miners of northern Chile, who want to swap their copper and nitrates for Argentina's grain, vegetables and beef...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Menotti Salta's Nostalgic Serenade, Goldmark's Overture to In Springtime, Debussy's Nuages and Fêtes, Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, Fritz Kreisler's Sicilienne et Rigaudon, Prelude and Allegro. Conductor: Frank Black...
...choice of Salta as the conference city recognized neutral Argentina as a meeting ground congenial to the Fascist-minded. But opposition to the conference developed from the Argentine people, the majority of whom are sympathetic to the United Nations' cause. Neither Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello of Buenos Aires, nor the Papal Nuncio, the Most Rev. José Fietta, approved of the congress...