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...from the beginning, the powerful Chilean National Agricultural Society led the opposition. It was dead set against the limited trans-Andean customs union that the treaty would set up. That, it said, would lead to Argentine food-dumping and put Chilean farmers out of business. Even Chilean vineyards, it contended, could never compete with the mass-produced wines of Mendoza...
...maybe he might, after all, offer a miracle. He had read news dispatches about artificial rainmaking in the U.S., resolved to have a go at it. He equipped a Peruvian air force plane with a rubber water tank, personally flew off to sprinkle a fat cumulus cloud over the Andean foothills. Rain fell, but it was in an area where it often rains at this time of year. Next day, Pedro was in the air again, with dry ice, found a cloud over the desert. The dry-ice ejector got stuck...
Temperate Water. Dr. Newell went to Peru to collect fossils of shellfish that lived and died in the ancient sea. The shells, embedded in the sedimentary rocks, are an accurate key to the age and origin of the strata. He brought back two tons of specimens, grubbed out of Andean rocks by U.S. and Peruvian assistants...
Give & Take. Soon trans-Andean telephone wires were humming. González spent an hour telling President Perón about the plot. Perón quickly sent to Santiago for more details. When Cunja and Jakasa deplaned at Mendoza, Argentine police hustled them away. Perón's Government announced that both would return to Yugoslavia...
...Hannes Schneider's Alberg school has ruled for years, and uncounted thousands have angled their skis in stem and snowplow turns. But to a man, the Portillo pupils raved about Allais. His theories, the Americans predicted, would soon sweep the U.S. Chile's Government, eager to foster Andean sport and latch on to a few badly needed tourist dollars, hopes to sign Allais to a five-year contract that will keep him teaching his tricks at Portillo...