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...centers": for the life sciences, the earth sciences, materials research, communications, and aeronautics and astronautics. In the life sciences center, for" example, electrical engineers, physicists, chemists, mathematicians, medical men, biophysicists, biochemists, microbiologists and electron-microscope experts all pool their skills. The life sciences center is a prime customer for Chilean fishermen, who ship to Cambridge the nerve fibers of a giant squid found off Chile's coast. The size of the fibers makes them relatively easy to work with, and M.I.T.'s life scientists, combining their efforts, have become more or less familiar with most of the chemical...
Died. George de Cuevas, 75, Chilean-born, part-Danish, Spanish-titled Marquis de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter in 1927, became international society's favorite ballet impresario and one of its freest-spending party givers, renounced his title, but not his way of life, when he became a U.S. citizen in 1940; of cancer; at his villa, Les Délices, in Cannes...
...Santiago, Chile, Communists everywhere hailed it as another landmark in Khrushchev's campaign to overtake the U.S. in everything from meat production to widget manufacture. "When it comes to shooting at the moon or at the basket, the U.S. cannot keep up with Russia," trumpeted a leftist Chilean paper. "We won," declared Russian Coach Stepan Spandarian loftily, "because we did what we planned...
...headed for Europe on a National Research Fellowship and began a seven-year odyssey that took him to Copenhagen to study under Nobel Prize-winning Biochemist August Krogh, to Cambridge University for another degree, to Harvard for human-fatigue experiments, and to an 18,000-ft. peak in the Chilean Andes for high-altitude studies of miners. Then he landed at the Mayo Clinic, where he found himself "in a real medical environment" for the first time. Dr. Keys also found his wife-to-be, Margaret Haney, when he interviewed-and hired-her for a medical technologist...
...aides launched Operation Unitas, an unprecedented, four-month, South American antisub exercise. A U.S. task force centered around the sub Odax rendezvoused first with the Venezuelan and Colombian fleets in the Caribbean, then maneuvered with Ecuador's navy, turned south and linked up simultaneously with the Peruvian and Chilean navies. Finally, it conducted a four-nation maneuver with Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian ships. The operation's longest air patrol, 11 hr. and 15 min., was flown by a Brazilian Neptune, which circled so aggressively over its sub-contact area that a reporter aboard wrote, "It looked like...