Word: welled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting in Washington, representatives of the world's major coffee areas agreed on the first export quota plan ever to include Africa as well as Latin America. Latin Americans, citing a world market of about 39 million bags v. production of about 51 million, wanted the Africans to join them in last year's pact, but the Africans were more interested in bigger markets than in price. Brazil's selling blitz cut sharply into African sales, persuaded Africans to sign...
Thrilled but undazzled, Columnist Landers-who is the wife of Ballpoint Pen Executive Jules Lederer-took a Berlitz cram course in Russian, then flew off to see what makes Reds red-eyed. After three weeks she came back with a stack of well-filled notebooks, turned out a dozen columns on her impressions of Russia ("Everybody needed a bath and a haircut"; "Russians put a premium on brains"; "a warm, affectionate people"). Through all her copy ran familiar Landers material: "Ivan is worried about Irena's supervisor at the furniture factory. He has heard rumors-and she has been...
...seemed to have disappeared. Just as Producer Bloch turned to walk away, a bulky man dressed like a pilot tapped him on the shoulder: "You looking for a guy named Demara?" "Yes," replied Bloch, "we sure are. Was he on your plane?" Off came the braid-encrusted cap. "Well, here I am," said the imposing (6 ft., 270 Ibs.), self-assured impostor, "ready for work...
...Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2). What the delegates saw of Namru-2's work was so impressive that they later passed a resolution to accept the unit's standing offer of emergency help in epidemics among Asia's civilian population. As most of the delegates well knew, Namru-2 has long since proved its value to Asia's millions...
...Paulo (pop. 3,650,000) likes to boast of itself as the locomotive that pulls all the other Brazilian states. Ten years ago Industrialist Francisco ("Cicillo") Matarazzo Sobrinho* decided it was high time Sâo Paulo got up enough steam to become a center of the arts as well. Stoked by Matarazzo's enthusiasm and backing, the city fathers and state officials financed a multimillion-dollar series of exhibition halls in the city's suburbs, organized a biennial show of international art designed to rival Venice's. Last week Sâo Paulo opened its fifth Bienal, with more than...