Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once they all seemed to agree," smiled Peru's President Manuel Prado last week as a chorus of assent from Latin American Presidents answered his call for a hemisphere-wide conference on disarmament. The U.S. Department of State hastened to approve the idea. Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Uruguay agreed to meet, and Argentine President Arturo Frondizi cabled "my firmest support...
Died. Andrés Martinez Trueba, 75, President of Uruguay who voluntarily stepped down in his second year (1952) of office to permit the introduction of a government by council, patterned after Switzerland's, with a rotating chairmanship, and was elected first chairman; in Montevideo, Uruguay...
...economic domination, but simple indifference-a lack of attention in high places. Last week the attention was coming from all over. President Dwight Eisenhower dropped word that he plans to make a good-will visit to Latin America next spring, before his trip to Russia (likely stops: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile). And politicians of every stripe were paying Latin America the ultimate compliment of playing expert...
...Dempster Mclntosh, 63, onetime president of Philco International Corp. (1943-53), ambassador to Latin American countries (Uruguay, Venezuela), first manager of the Administration's Development Loan Fund (1957-59), to be Ambassador to Colombia...
...Uruguay, haunted by memories of 1955-56 when 1,800 adult polio victims died, went all out on oral vaccination last October, got 300,000 people immunized before politicians decided to make an issue of "experimental" vaccine. Their protests had no effect. Last week Uruguayans were still queueing up for it, and no ill effects had been reported...