Word: tiempos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stories. A possible explanation suggested by Alberse: the common practice of many newspapers which reprint something from the magazine each week, "whether it has any local importance or not." Many editors also use TIME as their own source of much background information. An executive of Colombia's El Tiempo told Alberse: "We read in TIME things that we can find nowhere else, and that we couldn't print ourselves...
Challenge Met. Founded 42 years ago by Eduardo Santos, El Tiempo was democracy's most powerful voice during Colombia's period of peaceful progress in the first half of the century. During World War II, having temporarily laid aside his editorial responsibilities to serve as Colombia's President, El Tiempo's Santos ranged his country at the side of the U.S. His newspaper, printing not only first-rate world news but daily dispatches from correspondents in scores of Colombian cities, became a national newspaper, read from the Caribbean coast to the borders of Ecuador. El Tiempo...
Following a funeral for five guerrilla-slain policemen, some 200 well-coached civilian "rioters" sacked and burned the headquarters of two Liberal newspapers, one of them El Tiempo (circ. 180,000), Latin America's most distinguished newspaper since the destruction of Buenos Aires' La Prensa. The attackers destroyed the newspaper's advertising and circulation records, wrecked its oak-paneled editorial offices and gutted its pressroom...
...Tiempo rose to last week's challenge. After missing one day, the newspaper borrowed an idle plant and triumphantly put out an eight-page tabloid edition. Santos, now ill and living in Paris, cabled congratulations to his staff. Four days later, El Tiempo confounded everybody a second time by getting its own big presses running again. Government diehards slapped on a tough new censorship which could stop the newspaper from publishing. But for the moment, El Tiempo was selling more papers than ever before...
...week's end, perhaps the best indication of the tension in Bogotá was the fact that Liberal ex-President Alfonso López and Liberal Chieftain Carlos Lleras Restrepo, whose houses had been burned by the same mobs that sacked El Tiempo, took asylum in the Venezuelan embassy...