Word: semana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circ. 113,315), a notably uncontentious Spanish-language business-news magazine that is flown into 19 Latin American countries. Visão (circ. 45,886), a sister publication to Visión, is a Portuguese-language news weekly in Brazil. In addition, the company has a half interest in Semana, a news weekly published in Bogota, Colombia, owns the profitable business-pamphleteering ("Just Between Office Girls") National Foremen's Institute...
...history of the last ten years in Colombia is full of Luis Ignacio Andrade," said the magazine Semana last week. And for all those years, Andrade was a name that sent chills up thousands of Colombian spines. In 1949, the police under his Ministry of Government slaughtered Liberals by the hundreds, scared the rest from the polls, and imposed a Conservative President in a one-party election. When many backlands Liberals turned into guerrillas and vengefully killed his cops, Andrade publicly proposed to "shoot ten prominent Liberal politicians for every dead policeman...
Anti-"Government" Parties. Around convertibles, mambos and soda fountains, reports Bogotá's weekly Semana, Colombian teen-agers are building "a fresh, good-natured society"−the "cocacolos." For inspiration, youth draws more and more on the U.S. Typical day, according to Semana...
Atomic Pineapples. What makes a cocacolo? They must be students, says Semana, and from the well-to-do suburbs. They wear blue jeans, sweaters and moccasins (though mostly at home), they must dance well, and "cultivate at least five of the following tastes : comics, spaceship adventure books, U.S. jazz, iced soft drinks, the movies, the radio, sports, chewing gum or hot-rods." Most notably, they must know the vocabulary. Samples: "phantasmagoric," "atomic" or "pyramidal" (for great), "pineapple" and "mango" (for a kiss), "curse of the green turkey buzzard" and "horror, horror, three times horror!" (as all-purpose exclamations of surprise...
...eleven-page illustrated article on Cuban Patriot Jose Marti, together with some of his original writings. As a regular feature, the Spanish-language LIFE also has a "Letter from North America." In its Letters-to-the-Editor section, Colombia Publisher Maurice Obregón, owner of Semana, a weekly newsmagazine, wrote:"We respect the competition of your admirable magazine . . . but we do not wish in any way to prevent the competition, for two reasons: first, because we believe that competition is inevitable in any healthy country, and second, because we hope that LIFE EN ESPANOL will contribute to the information...