In separate studios, in CBS's modernistic, mid-Manhattan short-wave headquarters, sit a pair of dark-haired, olive-skinned announcers, their eyes on the red second hands of electric clocks. At the same moment, both begin to speak, one in Portuguese, the other in Spanish. Engineers throw two switches, send the Portuguese commentary splashing out over WCBX for pick-up in Brazil, the Spanish commentary over WCRC and WCDA for rebroadcast in the other Latin countries south of the border. La Cadena de las Americas (The Network of the Americas) is on the air.
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