Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chatted in almost flawless Spanish with farmers in a corn patch outside Mexico City. In El Salvador, he was charmed to hear members of a pick-up band tootle The Star-Spangled Banner, which they had learned by ear from a Peace Corpsman, who had whistled it for three days. In Panama, he visited an Alliance-financed grade school and attended a dinner honoring the fourth anniversary of the Alliance, which he heads as part of his assignment...
...Salvador Luria professor of biology, Boston University
...rose 5.5% to more than $90 billion in 1964, v. a 1.8% increase the year before. The big gains came from Mexico (up 10% chiefly on a construction boom), Venezuela (up 7.6% on record oil exports) and the nascent Central American Common Market, whose five members-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua -averaged a 7% increase. Tugging the figures down were Brazil, which gained only 1.4% because of inflation; Uruguay, which gained only 1.1% thanks to a stagnating economy; and Panama, whose gross product decreased 1.5% owing to a multitude of woes...
...gallery will emphasize contemporary art, will open with an 800-work, $750,000 collection that includes etchings, engravings, lithographs and woodcuts by Braque, Chagall, Miró and Luigini. In their three-month search through Europe and the U.S. to assemble the collection, Woolworth's buyers also picked up Salvador Dali's $30,000 Triumph of the Sea, and a $24,000 Gainsborough called Dr. Pulteney. Anyone who does not have that kind of cash, of course, will still be able to enter almost any Woolworth store and buy, from the chain's collection of reproductions, Gainsborough...
Down with the Ducks. For Frei (rhymes with day), the elections were do or die in the truest sense. In his presidential campaign last summer against Communist-backed Salvador Allende, Frei promised voters a long list of desperately needed economic and social reforms. Partly because of his personal appeal and partly because of widespread distaste for the Marxist Allende, Frei rolled up the largest plurality in Chilean history. Yet in office he faced a lame-duck Congress, in which his party held a scant 33 of the 192 seats, so few that he was unable to win passage...