Word: chileans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bogotá's beggars have yet to reach the imaginative heights of the Chilean beggar who carried a closed coffin on his shoulders through Santiago streets, asking alms to bury his dead child. Prying police found pesos in his pockets, no corpse in the coffin...
...taste," burbles Chilean Author María-Luísa Bombal, "the grim, documentary type of writing is overdone today. I prefer-what you call-escape." Because escapist literature is Hollywood's meat, her new novel, House of Mist (Farrar Straus, $2.75), was a natural mouthful (at $125,000) for Producer Hal Wallis. Even without book royalties Author Bombal's literary take is tops for a Latin American writer...
...middle of the 19th Century, Peruvian pirates swept down on Easter and carried off many of its inhabitants to slavery. Smallpox killed hundreds of others. When the Chilean Navy moved in (in 1888), its sailormen found no more than 200 or 300 Polynesians, living among Easter's great stone images. For years, Easter Island's only visitors were chance whalers, occasional foreign warships, and archeologists trying to solve the mystery of the giant statues. One & all, the visitors liked the island's moderate climate and superb trade winds, but for vacations or all year preferred the lusher...
...Chilean Government decided that Easter Island would never be commercially valuable, and rented 53 of its 60 square miles (for $150 a month) to a subsidiary of the British trading firm of Williamson & Balfour...
Sheep in the Cemetery. This year, newsmen found the 656 tattered Polynesian survivors (there were also nine Chilean officials, two Englishmen, one Frenchman) living in one coastal village. The British company's 60,000 sheep grazed in the shadow of the ancient monoliths. The annual wool-clip alone was worth around $150,000. Ojeda demanded that Chile develop the island itself. Other Santiago papers took...