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...Chile, Helen Keller, 72, on a two-month Latin American lecture tour, was marooned for three days in the resort city of Chillan by a storm which took ten lives. A Chilean air-force plane, ordered to the scene by President Carlos Ibáñez, came to the rescue...
Among the best living arguments for abstractionism is a 40-year-old Chilean named Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren, who calls himself simply "Matta." He lives with his wife and baby boy in a sunny apartment in Rome, paints only when he feels like it, and spends most of his leisure time grinding a rented hand organ on the streets. The mechanical music he grinds out gives Matta and his small boy assistant little profit, but Matta enjoys watching the faces of his listeners at the sidewalk cafes. Matta's latest show, opening next week in Manhattan, will...
...Santiago talks, Perón found out that stern old General Ibañez favored economic cooperation-and nothing more. Moreover, Chileans had taken offense at Perón's pronouncement just before leaving Buenos Aires that "we must have total union and immediately." Almost without exception, Chilean newspapers played down Perón's arrival, and one went so far as to report it in a single paragraph on the back page. In the end, Perón had to settle for a good deal less than he wanted. The two Presidents signed a protocol pledging negotiation...
...athletes, trade unionists and government officials to Santiago. A claque of descamisados chanted "Pay-ron, Pay-ron" in their best Buenos Aires manner during Perén's balcony speech. Members of the St. Evita News Vendors' Union of Buenos Aires hawked Peronista emblems, and buttonholed Chilean workers for enthusiastic "missionary" talks about the union swimming pools and apartment houses in the new Argentina. One of the sport stars in the delegation who attracted special attention was Socialite Tennist María Teran Weiss, attractive young widow of a Buenos Aires businessman. Reason: she is the latest...
Will Perón also try to put over his old plan for uniting Argentina and Chile in a customs union? Chilean Publisher Luis Rodríguez, returning last week from Buenos Aires, said Peron told him: "I believe it is time for Argentina and Chile to form a political and economic federation." When Rodriguez gingerly mentioned that many Chileans fear that the Argentines would try to dominate such a partnership, Perón guffawed: "In order that this ideal should become reality, I would be willing to let Chile annex Argentina...