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...shade of a chilly, barren mountain called India Muerto (Dead Indian), 9,000 feet up in the northern Chilean Andes, lies the world's newest major find of copper ore. The discovery, says Roy H. Glover, board chairman of Anaconda Co., "is the greatest and most important development in copper mining in Chile since the initiation in 1914 of Chuquicamata" -and famed Chuquicamata is the world's biggest copper ore body. Last week Chile's President Carlos Ibañez gave Anaconda* an official go-ahead to spend $53 million toward making Indio Muerto an active producer...
...latest price boost was demanded by Chile, where Anaconda and Kennecott mine a critical 14% of the world's supply. The Chilean government, which now channels no more than one-third of its copper output to the U.S. understandably opposes U.S. producers' efforts to keep the price down because it gets a cut of company profits. Many U.S. industries also feel that the only way to get more of the metal is to lure Chilean copper back from Europe by matching Europe's price. The copper shortage in the U.S. has spurred use of substitutes; e.g., radio...
...bled, after he pulled out a handkerchief with a lipstick stain on it. At the Marquis de Cuevas' ball in Biarritz two years ago (TIME. Sept. 14, 1953), Ann, dressed as a red devil, reacted violently when she saw her husband dancing with Carmen Sainte, the beautiful Chilean-born wife of a big French rope-and-hemp man. During the dance, Mme. Sainte wrapped her enormous Spanish shawl around Woodward, and the two rumbaed together underneath. Ann fumed up to them, ripped off the shawl, tore Mme. Sainte's dress, slapped her face, slapped Bill, finally...
Lesser awards went to Italy's Renato Birolli, 49, for his dramatic composition of lightning in a vineyard; to Chilean-born Painter Matta, 43, for a 10-ft.-long canvas filled with bedazzling pyrotechnics that looked like a combined château and gasworks in hell the night the fireworks factory blew up; to Rome's Toti Scialoja, 41, for a low-keyed study in a lyrical cubist style. Not until the honorable mentions did the first U.S. painters appear: little-known Pittsburgh Artist Marjorie Eklind, 31, and this year's leading U.S. Prizewinner John Hultberg...
...Family name was originally Leonardi Military Career. Graduated from the national military academy as artillery lieutenant. Taught tactics at Superior War College in 1930s. Appointed Argentine military attaché in Santiago, Chile in 1943, where he succeeded Colonel Juan Perón who had been suspected of espionage by Chilean government. Served as Argentina's representative on Inter-American Defense Board in Washington in 1947-48. Retired as two-star general in 1951 after dismissal from command of Frist Army (HQ Rosario) for allegedly plotting against Perón Underground Career. As a leader of an ineffectual anti...