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Chile played host to a large contingent of eager Russians, including Playwright-Author (Days and Nights) Konstantin Simonov, a power in the Soviet Writers' Union; the Cultural Ministry's Latin American chief, Konstantin Chugonov; Neurologist Leonidas Koreisha; and the 18-man Dynamo soccer team. Dynamo lost its Chilean match 1-0, but the Simonov team scored by making agreements to exchange teachers with Chile, to send copies of all books printed by Moscow University in return for copies of a single Chilean literary magazine, to send the Moscow Dramatic Theater for a visit in 1959. "Gentlemen, make your...
...Chilean authorities promptly arrested Warden Salvador Mejias, a friendly fellow who was surprised a few months ago sharing a convivial meal with his Peronista prisoners. Watches were set on all roads and airfields, but Argentine officials were not hopeful. Said one gloomily: "Jorge's money can buy anything...
...alternative means of transportation would be secured for them if they so wished and that this would be entirely at the expense of this company. By far the greater percentage of passengers who did avail themselves of this offer were third class, including 60 Jamaican Boy Scouts and 15 Chilean Boy Scouts for whom a special plane was chartered to bring them to London...
Died. Gabriela Mistral (real name: Lucila Godoy Alcayaga), 67, tall, straight-haired Chilean poet and schoolteacher who won adulation throughout Latin America for her Sonnets of Death (1914), written after the suicide of a lover, was awarded the permanent post of roving consul (her assignment: to live where she pleased) by the grateful Chilean government, in 1945 received the Nobel Prize for poetry; of cancer; in Hempstead...
Palace rates are reasonable-$25 a day in midseason for a good room with meals -but many guests spend a great deal more, often throw little parties for 30 or 40 friends, pick up a $4,000 check. Once, tiring of the Palace's three orchestras, Niarchos and Chilean Magnate Arturo Lopez ordered a band from Milan, heard one number, sent it packing and hired another. On the insistence of wealthy guests who wanted an ultra-exclusive ski club, the Palace agreed to manage the Corviglia Ski Club and operate a skiers' restaurant atop 10,000-ft.-high...