Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fein had no weakness for television, he had a couple of others to make up for it. As president of his father's thriving tin-can and cardboard-box business, he seemed to have everything he needed-the best clothes, a sleek, white Lincoln Continental, an eight-room Park Avenue apartment in which he maintained his attractive wife, Nancy, and their three children. But Fein, slender, bespectacled and Milquetoast-mild in appearance, frittered away a small fortune on a pair of extracurricular pursuits-gambling and Gloria Kendal. In her 37 years, the last 16 of them spent...
Thus ended, at least temporarily, the political career of one of Latin America's most fascinating and controversial statesmen. Paz was one of the organizers of the 1952 revolt that overturned the tin barons and emancipated the Bolivian population from virtual serfdom. As President for all but four years since then, he pushed through needed tax reforms, redistributed land, built roads and hospitals, and began a program to resettle 500,000 Bolivians from the barren plateau to the more fertile valleys. A firm friend of the U.S., he gave ardent support to the Alliance for Progress, created so favorable...
...government rioters surged through La Paz, looting, burning and sniping at army troops sent to keep order. Before it was over, 45 were killed, 160 wounded. Out of hiding came Leftist Juan Lechin, 51, Paz's archrival and boss of most of the country's 35,000 tin miners. Adding to the chaos, his miners demanded the re-establishment of union control of the mines...
Preaching Hatred. The warning rumbles have been growing ever since the May election in which Paz won another four-year term over the bitter opposition of two erstwhile allies: former President Hernán Siles Zuazo, 50, and Juan Lechin, 51, leftist boss of Bolivia's tin miners. Siles has been packed off to exile in Uruguay. But Lechin is still around, preaching hatred and focusing Paz's opposition...
Crucial Pivot. President Paz accused Communist Czechoslovakia of playing a major role in the riots, claimed evidence that the tin miners had been "armed with weapons made in Czechoslovakia." Denouncing "this interference in Bolivia's internal affairs," Paz immediately broke all relations and ordered the Czech diplomats home...