Word: chileanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constructed wood and metal frames strung with vertical strands of nylon and set them up on nearby hills. As the fog was blown through the frames by the evening wind, it formed water droplets on the strands that dripped into receptacles below, quickly filling them. With enough frames, the Chilean scientists believe they can supply the water needs of a medium-sized city...
When government ministers from four of the free world's main copper-exporting countries gathered in the sweltering Zambian capital of Lusaka on June 1, the copper-consuming nations had every reason to worry. The idea, as conceived last fall by Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and Chilean President Eduardo Frei, was to set up a price-and-quota-fixing copper cartel to control the world market. After all, their countries plus Peru and the Congo produce 70% of the earth's copper sold for export. * With economies largely based on copper, all four nations have suffered...
...kind conference ended with only an innocuous agreement to coordinate research and information policies. For that, the four countries set up an Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries, to be based in Paris. Its first move will be to open an information bureau. "Consumers must not worry," said mustachioed Chilean Minister of Mines Alejandro Hales, the conference's dominant delegate. "We are not going for their throats. This will not be a cabal...
...logic is beginning to take root. A favorite story going the rounds at the Planned Parenthood conference tells of a 27-year-old woman who had just returned to the Chilean capital after a few years abroad. At a reunion of her convent school class, she looked around at 30 classmates, nearly all of them married, and got a "What's wrong with this picture?" reaction. None of them were pregnant, though most of them had been pregnant at the previous reunion five years before. "It suddenly dawned on me," she said, "that they were all on the pill...
...London Times was not content with just a pool. The Sunday Times and the daily Times had bought exclusive rights to Chichester's own account and had assigned a go-for-broke Australian, Murray Sayle, to handle the story. Sayle hired his own plane, lined up a Chilean pilot named Rodolfo Fuenzalida, whose normal work is to spot schools of fish. Fuenzalida had no hesitation about taking the job, even though the Chilean air force forbids its pilots to fly south of the cape for fear of violent winds. Despite the danger of overloading his Piper Apache, Fuenzalida squeezed...