Word: chilean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dollars & Influence. Many other Latin American countries thought that was a good idea. The Chilean Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted in favor of calling a Latin American conference "in defense of raw materials." Bogotá's El Tiempo cried, "Where is the good will?" Fishing in the troubled waters, Perón's revamped La Prensa sneered at "the Good Neighbor policy that is good only for one neighbor [meaning...
There is no quick way to boost copper imports, either. The U.S. last May shelved its 2?-a-lb. tariff, and agreed to pay a premium price of 27½? for Chilean copper, which accounts for most U.S. imports. But the U.S. also had to agree to let Chile sell a big chunk of her copper in Europe and elsewhere, where the price has been as high as 50? a Ib. Result: imports have dropped...
Married. Consuelo ("Conchita") Cintron Verrill, 29, flashy Chilean-American lady bullfighter who developed a unique style beginning with rejoneo (mounted bullfighting) and ending with toreo (foot fighting), has killed 800 bulls in her 13 years in the ring; and Don Francisco Castelo Branco, 32, Portuguese businessman; in Lisbon. After the ceremony, Conchita announced her plans for the future: to quit the ring, settle down and write her memoirs...
President Gabriel González Videla announced last week that uranium had been discovered in Chile. Geologists of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, secretly brought in last year by the Chilean Development Corp. (Fomento) to explore likely areas in north central Chile, found two deposits near La Serena and Vallenar. Proclaiming that "the discovery will bring the country unsuspected wealth," President González asked Congress for a law that will place all Chilean Uranium under government control...
...about Eugenie. Until World War II, a bas-relief sculpture of her stood on the town's seaside boulevard; then the Germans carted it away for scrap metal. Biarritz somehow didn't look right without her. This spring, the city fathers signed up a 28-year-old Chilean sculptor named Juan Luis Cousino to carve a new statue. The sculptor's advance design was perfect: a gay, wasp-waisted Eugenie in swirling crinolines. Last week the city fathers were hopping mad. They had their statue, but it wasn't Eugenie...