Word: colombianizing
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...this summer, U.S. oilmen have been filling Havana with ten-gallon hats and billion-barrel talk. Last week a band of ten Latin American and U.S. businessmen flew into Havana to promote the development of the country's oil resources. Among the officers of the newly chartered Cuban-Colombian Petroleum Co.: Board Chairman Joseph W. Frazer. once of Kaiser-Frazer Corp., who now heads a uranium company; Director John A. Roosevelt, youngest of F.D.R'.s four sons, whose business ventures have ranged from department stores to home permanent waves; President Octavio Reyes Espin-dola, onetime Mexican Ambassador...
...stimulate development of the island's oil resources, the loan need not be repaid unless the prospectors strike oil. With close to a million acres under lease in the central Jatibonico Basin, where a wildcat syndicate last May opened up the country's first sizable oilfield, Cuban-Colombian agreed last week to drill six 4,000-ft. wells when geological surveys are completed...
...Colombian university students, singing the national anthem, marched 4,000 strong into downtown Bogota last week to protest the killing of a fellow student in a scuffle with police the day before. At a street corner they were halted by a cordon of rifle-bearing soldiers. For a few minutes, an amiable standoff prevailed. Then, from a balcony overhead, came the report of a pistol. A soldier fell dead...
Pants in the Ants. In Journey to the Far Amazon, Explorer Alain Gheerbrant tells how, with one Colombian and two Frenchmen, he plunged into the "green hell" of the Sierra Parima between Venezuela and Brazil. That vast sea of vegetation, never before crossed by a white man, was filled with reptiles, insects and maiir eating fish, all unfriendly. One night in a grotto a scraping noise awakened Gheerbrant. It was an advancing column, 16 inches wide, of red ants. They had already devoured his belt, half his trousers and were starting on his leather camera case...
...inspector's shutdown, newest in a five-year series of official and unofficial anti-Protestant blows in Colombia, stems from an agreement between the government and the Vatican. The agreement makes the islands one of 18 Colombian "mission territories" reserved to Catholics. It was signed three years ago, when Catholic, arch-Conservative Laureano Gómez was President...