Word: bolivia
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...price down to 75?. Gradually the world price inched back to $1.20, which is just about what it costs the industry's many marginal operators to produce tin. But recently the price sank to a low of $1.03, and for this the producers-in Malaya, Indonesia, Thailand, Bolivia, Nigeria and the Congo-blame the U.S. Reason: the U.S. announcement last fall that it would sell off 50,000 long tons of tin from its overloaded strategic stockpile of 341,000 tons. Those 50,000 tons are almost one-third as much as the free world produces in a year...
...also the hard-working head of the Costurero del Niño (literally, children's sewing box), a charitable organization that distributed clothes to 50,000 underprivileged children last Christmas. For her three daughters, aged three, five, and seven, who have been given a strict Roman Catholic upbringing, Bolivia's First Lady insists: "I want to give them a normal life, not one of privilege...
...Those who still maintain relations with Castro: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay...
Miss Hegeman will study South American social agencies, in particular a Columbian school for underprivileged children near Bogota. Rosaldo plans to investigate social problems of migratory Indians in Ecuador and Peru. The remaining projects are in the humanities in Bolivia and Argentina: Spencer will work on the background of the 1952 Bolivian revolution, Kahn and Miss Meyer on topics in contemporary Argentine literature...
...vote on expulsion, Mexico balked by declaring that under inter-American treaties, only "moral" condemnation was legal. Brazil, torn by economic and political chaos since Jánio Quadros' renunciation of the presidency last August, was clearly afraid that a yes vote would further divide its people. Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile had home problems as well. Even those four important Latin nations were willing to go along with the exclusion clause if, instead of saying that Cuba had excluded itself by its behavior, the phrase was changed to say that its conduct "is contrary to participation...