Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaches history to future teachers; 4) boss of a 50,000-member labor-federation; and 5) chief of the Communist-line Revolutionary Workers Party. Gutiérrez had but one deviation: he sometimes indulged in the luxury of squabbling with José Manuel Fortuny, leader of a group of Guatemalan intellectuals and students calling themselves, forthrightly, the Communist Party (TIME, July 16). Last December Gutiérrez was rewarded for his faith & works by a trip to Moscow and a chance to test the sleazy comfort of the Hotel Metropole...
...Guatemalan doctors liked Salvatore Lanza at first. A slender, high-strung Italian in his middle 30s, he was loaded with Old World charm. From his voluble talk, it appeared that he was a devoted scientist and surgeon, educated at European universities. About his specialty, plastic surgery, he seemed to know all there was to know. Since plastic surgery is a virgin field in Guatemala, several doctors gratefully accepted his services as a consultant...
...voting, under Guatemalan law, went on for three days. But last week, after the National Election Board had counted the ballots, González Juárez called off his party. He had been trounced. The winner, by 24,466 votes to 19,306, was Juan Luis Lizarralde (TIME...
From the sunbaked, palm-dotted town of Tuxtla Gutiérrez near the Guatemalan border, 97 carefully tuned automobiles set off last week on the first northward lap of the second Pan-American stock-car race, a five-day, 1,933-mile scramble sponsored by Mexico's National Automobile Association. Competing with Mexican speed demons for $68,000 in prizes-and the glory of beating some of the world's nerviest racers to Ciudad Juarez-were two-man teams from the U.S., Canada, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, France and Italy. Ahead of them were the hairpin curves, roller-coaster...
...turn over to the government the country's major ports, which Unifruit built and operates; 3) cut freight rates on the rail network it controls and on the ships of the "Great White Fleet"; and 4) pay higher prices for bananas it buys from independent Guatemalan producers...