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...little girl's nickname is Twink. She is also nicknamed Frog, Dandelion, Grasshopper and Mrs. Nijinsky. Twink has a mother, Mama Girl, and a father, Papa Boy. Unfortunately, Mama Girl and Papa Boy are divorced, and Papa Boy lives in Paris with Twink's brother, Peter Bolivia Agriculture. Cause of the split, it seems, is that Mama Girl cannot put her mind to being a Wife Woman when her heart is set on being an Actress Broadway...
...dollar-starved Bolivia, the free rate of exchange has slid to 6,800 bolivianos to the dollar, and local price inflation, though high, has not kept up. Result: anyone paid in dollars can buy beef filets for 11? a lb., rice for 2? a lb., gasoline for 5? a gal., cooking oil 4? a qt. A maid's salary runs from $1.50 to $2.50 a month; an average taxi ride costs 5? -no tip expected...
...businessman who lives in Buenos Aires reported last week. "Movies at five cents, sugar at a penny a pound-if Americans would like the fine, careless rapture of living in 1956 with such items on their budgets, all they have to do is to take the next plane to Bolivia," a U.S. woman wrote from Cochabamba. With the forces of exchange legalization, runaway inflation and currency liberation variously at work, dollar-earners in South America were finding many bargains-along with some sudden price rises...
...notation ("It was easy; the notes went up and down, and so did the music"); when he was 6½, he tuned a violin without help, and then correctly pointed out that the family piano was flat. A few months later, his parents sold their home and possessions in Bolivia to give him U.S. training (in San Francisco). After one of his rare appearances four years ago, the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "In the 1920s it was Yehudi Menuhin, in the 1930s it was Isaac Stern; and [now it is] Jaime Laredo." After that, scholarships, first with Concertmaster Josef Gingold...
Jaime plans to make his first concert tour in September (Peru, Bolivia and possibly Colombia) and then return for more studies, heading for eventual participation in the 1958 Brussels International contest. But he is cautious about predicting a future for himself: "Maybe it will be the concert stage, if I can make it. I can only hope...