Word: uruguayan
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Actually, shocked Montevideo had seen no more violence than Cuba and Venezuela saw when The Iron Curtain was shown in Havana and Caracas. But Uruguay is a republic where order and freedom of expression are part of the national creed.* Even the Uruguayan Communist party, which polled 4% of the votes at the last presidential election, has been accepted as a legal, peaceful political movement...
...streets of Buenos Aires last week the talk was of football and horse races and cattle fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house...
Purple Land. Uruguay is one of only two countries in South America (the other: Venezuela) which are not running out of dollars. In the first five months of this year, Uruguay ran her dollar kitty up from $32 million to $40 million. The Uruguayan peso rides steady at 1.9 to the dollar. But unlike oil-rich Venezuela, to which a plethora of dollars has brought sky-high prices, Uruguay has avoided inflation...
Batlle has resumed the longtime practice of government intervention in industry. Telephones, banks, trains, insurance, fisheries and meat-packing plants are all government-owned enterprises in Uruguay. With accumulated sterling, the government plans to buy more Uruguayan railroads from the British. Businessmen already complain of a growing new bureaucracy, of obnoxious new controls, and the drain on Uruguay's resources...
...tango tunes put together by the Tin Pan Alleys along the Plata, the one locally regarded as No. 1 is La Cumparsita. Gerardo Hernán Mattos Rodríguez, a Uruguayan, wrote it in 1916. An architecture student at the University of Uruguay, he had seen a group of boisterous fellow students, evicted from their rooming house, pick up the tables and chairs and march out in a noisy procession (cumparsa). That gave him a title. He quickly knocked out a doleful melody and a set of lyrics that were soon replaced by those of a rival lyricist...