Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beclouding his promise of an election in 1958, Rojas Pinilla told the newspaper Diario de Colombia that his government would continue until Colombians-who ran a pretty good working democracy from 1910 to 1946-become "politically civilized." Then he announced that the Constituent Assembly, Colombia's make-do Congress, would not sit this year. "A Parliament," he explained, "is the greatest achievement of democracy, but when it becomes a tribune for libel, it must be closed." The last and plainest word came from the government's radio bulletin, which all Colombian stations are forced to carry. After...
...dawn in Callao, but were speedily put down by the army at a cost of 100 killed. The government promptly outlawed the party. Less than a month later, Odria, by then convinced of his mission, seized power in a military junta. Haya took asylum in Lima's Colombian Embassy, became the world's most celebrated refugee before Odria freed and exiled him last year (he now lives in Belgium...
...Colombians had offers from New Orleans ice-cream makers to import the country's exotic curuba fruit juice; Esteve Brothers in Dallas were thinking of investing in a cotton project; Cerro de Pasco Corp. was hoping to put new money into Colombian copper mines...
...dresses; he hurried dustily on through villages where school children lined the streets for shrill vivas, through towns that tried to attract official attention to their rustic needs with crude banners impossible to read at high speed. After nine hours he coasted into San Cristobal, 18 miles from the Colombian border and 650 miles from Caracas. "Sports, swimming, high speeds," he mused, "all are fine ways to set aside the cares of office...
Anti-"Government" Parties. Around convertibles, mambos and soda fountains, reports Bogotá's weekly Semana, Colombian teen-agers are building "a fresh, good-natured society"−the "cocacolos." For inspiration, youth draws more and more on the U.S. Typical day, according to Semana...