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...introductory courses. He lectures, answers questions, conducts lab sessions, grades the students. He is supervised by a professor, who usually also delivers mass lectures in the course. The TA rarely gets much formal instruction in teaching. "You just walk in and face the enemy," says Cal TA Roberto Bernardo, 27. For the TA, who may be only a few years older than his students, teaching at a major university is heady stuff and valuable experience. "When we get to talking about our classes," says Michigan Fellow Solomon Cytrynbaum, 27, who teaches psychology, "it makes me wish I had had teachers...
...country's richest industrialists, was kidnaped as he walked to school; the kidnapers demanded $180,000 for his safe return. That same day in Bogotá, the wife of a prominent doctor was dragged from her home by three thugs. Says Colombia's National Police Commander Bernardo Camacho Leyva: "Kidnaping threatens to become a worse menace than la violencia...
...CHILE is the most European of the west-coast countries, honors-of all people-Bernardo O'Higgins as its first President, and has a long history of constitutional government. Nevertheless, the country's 8,200,000 people, 66% of them part Indian, have never been able to feed themselves; their country, for all the lush wheat-and wine-growing valleys, is still mostly desert and mountain that do not produce enough food for the soaring population. Like Peru's Belaunde, Chile's new President Eduardo Frei offers a vast reform program, including a landmark partnership with...
...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 of Merit, Chile's highest award to a foreigner. "The company will not stay static," says tall, even-tempered Brinckerhoff, who reported "encouraging" copper explorations in Arizona. Last year Anaconda's sales rose 2% to $709 million, but earnings dipped slightly, to $45 million...
...Join 'Em." With financial backing from Kaiser and technical guidance from onetime Utah Cowpuncher Pearce, the Brazil nuts went ahead anyway. U.S. engineers converted an old foundry to make Willys' castings, began building the sprawling, efficient plant at Sao Bernardo. The Brazilians set about lining up parts suppliers. A manufacturer of hypodermic needles converted his production to gas and oil lines, and a blacksmith bid to supply wheels. Recalls Willys Treasurer Paulo Quartim Barbosa: "We gave him an order for 500 wheels. They weren't quite square-but almost. Our technicians found they had eight protruding points...