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EMMELINE BARBOUR Anaconda, Mont...
...copper mines of Chile are a natural proving ground for the boss of Anaconda Co.-Charles M. Brinckerhoff, 63, who last week was promoted from president to the newly created post of vice chairman and chief executive officer. He succeeds Clyde E. Weed, 74, who stays on as chairman. A Columbia-trained mining engineer, Brinckerhoff spent 23 of his 38 years with Anaconda supervising its Chilean mines, the source of 70% of the output and 80% of the profits of the world's second largest copper producer (after Kennecott). Among his honors: the Bernardo O'Higgins Order...
...contain Yale star Rick Kaminsky, and Kaminsky is a more mortal. Everything has been used against Princeton's amazing Number 42: a straight zone, a straight man-to-man, double-teaming, triple-teaming, a box and one, a box and two. But Bradley could murder you with an anaconda wrapped around his neck...
Truth with Wisdom. Fantus' blue-chip client list includes such names as Ford, General Electric, General Foods, Westinghouse and Anaconda. The company found Hershey Chocolate a suitable Canadian site ("I even went out and counted cows to make sure there was enough milk for their candy," says Fulton) and eliminated 45 locations before setting Sara Lee Bakeries down just a few miles from where it had been. When Fulton brought Rockwell Manufacturing Co. to Tupelo. Miss., the town was so grateful that it named a street after him. In recent years Fantus has expanded into surveying areas...
...Latin America's biggest nations, the prospects for foreign investors are steadily deteriorating. In Chile, where strikes in the U.S.-owned copper mines have become an annual rite, and taxes run as high as 81% of profits, Anaconda and Kennecott have scrapped expansion programs totaling $325 million. In Argentina, where the gross national product actually dropped 10% last year, some 35 U.S. companies have recently canceled investment plans. New investment in Brazil has been discouraged by a law that prohibits foreign companies from withdrawing any profits above 10% of invested capital and by expropriation of an International Telephone & Telegraph...