Word: ticos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolutions in Peru and Venezuela fresh in mind, more than one Latin American capital was jittery about how the cavalry would vote. Latest to buzz with alarms and rumors was Quito, capital of Ecuador, where President Galo Plaza Lasso was tiffing with his own party (Movimiento Civico Democrático National). Hottest rumors: 1) army officers were angry over slow promotions; 2) aviation officers were angry over delayed pay raises; 3) Socialist leaders were trying to organize an anti-government movement among noncoms. TIME'S Quito correspondent cabled: "The government is not shaky in the sense that it could...
...Surgical Digest, co-editor of Surgical Magazine, author of 250 scientific articles. Since Surgeon Ochsner and four Tulane colleagues started the clinic in 1941, it has treated 70,000 patients. Among them are many Latin American millionaires and government officials who find Dr. Ochsner and New Orleans simpático. Other Ochsner patients: the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Trumpeter Muggsy Spanier...
...diplomat and author of heavy works on jurisprudence, Ruiz Guiñazú rose from obscurity to president of the League of Nations Council because Argentina alphabetically led off the member nations. Descendant of an autocratic Spanish family and stubborn stickler for legal details, he is temperamentally simpático with Acting President Castillo but out of tune with popular sentiment. Officially quiet under "state-of-siege" orders, Argentines began the New Year with a spate of "last-time" hilarity, as if they realized there might be significant changes by New Year...