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...subversion through existing orthodox Communist parties-with a few notable exceptions, such as in Venezuela, Colombia and Guatemala. This now gives the Russians better control of purse strings and operating methods. The Havana meeting also laid out a list of likely present and future targets. Among them: Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Paraguay and British Guiana...
...sculpture that caused the most goggling was a copy of the one that most Greeks thought they knew best the Louvre's Venus de Milo. This ver sion, however, was by Spain's Salvador Dali, so of course there was a difference. Dali had put drawers on her. Here and there he had cut out sections and turned them into sliding compartments. One visitor, proceeding on the premise that drawers are for opening, pulled out Venus' forehead, breasts and stomach before a horrified guard could stop...
...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...