Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew only 100 ft. over the Atlantic, at night he climbed to 500 ft. He made hourly radio position reports, saw no other planes or ships, never got sleepy enough to use his stay-awake pills. After 28 hours, he sighted Trinidad off Venezuela, turned up the Antilles toward the U.S., bypassing Cuba ("because I didn't want to get shot down"). He had enough fuel to make it to Los Angeles, but decided to land at El Paso because his jugs were empty and he was parched with thirst. Said he, as he downed a bottle...
...riots in Bogotá in 1948. But the U.S. is by no means isolated and embattled. Major hemisphere nations, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, have friendly and responsible governments and people. Such authentically liberal chiefs of state as Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia and Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela are increasingly wondering about Castro. Betancourt fortnight ago barred a visit by the Cuba revolution's foremost proCommunists: Majors Raúl Castro and Ernesto ("Che") Guevara...
Seven leading Latin American nations -Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Panama, Ecuador-cold-shouldered the U.S. last week to vote for U.S.S.R.-backed Poland instead of U.S.-backed Turkey to fill a U.N. Security Council seat. The failure to muster a two-thirds vote resulted in a deadlock and pushed decision on the issue into this week...
Pitching in Venezuela last winter, Sherry learned from Old Dodger Pete Reiser how to throw a slider, this summer finally conquered his control. Even so, Sherry had an unimposing 6-7 record at St. Paul in July when the Dodgers took a chance by bringing him up. But Rookie Sherry developed confidence under the pressure of the Dodgers' hard drive for the pennant, compiled a 7-2 record in the National League. "When I come in from the bullpen," he said, "nothing bothers...
Died. Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco, 53, plump, popular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Caracas, whose pastoral letter (1957), indicting Dictator Perez Jimenez for failing to relieve Venezuela's impoverished masses, triggered the opposition groups into action that toppled the dictator; in an auto accident; near Barcelona, Venezuela...