Word: chileans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, spotless Madre e Hijo Clinic in Santiago's squalid slums, she had given 20 years to prove that Chile's average infant mortality rate could be cut from 21.7% to less than 2%. For this, she became last fortnight the second woman* to receive the Chilean Government's highest decoration to foreigners: the Orden al Merito...
Today her clinic has 19 beds; mothers stay ten days, pay 500 pesos (about $15.80) for prenatal care, hospitalization and care of the child until it is six years old. Top Chilean doctors and obstetricians give their services free. Marie Schultze herself gets less than $1,200 a year, lives in a small apartment behind the clinic. Her reward: "The satisfaction I feel when I know I have had a vital part in saving some life...
Chile's brightest hopes lie in the half-Socialist, half-RFC Development Corporation, whose projects-a major steel mill, the Spring Hill oilfield, a copper processing plant, a new fishing industry-could in the long run raise the level of production. But the Chilean man in the street looked for action now. He would look to the new President...
England's moat was back to the ways of peace; the Channel swimmer was on the job again. Last week a 6-ft., 225-lb. Chilean named Jorge Berroeta set out to swim the English Channel. He gulped some of his secret-formula soup, a recipe he hides from his trainer, Georges Michel, who set the Channel record in 1926. Then he plunged into the icy water at Cap Gris Nez, bound for Dover...
Last week a Chilean Government bureau brought the wrath of the Catholic press on its head by bravely pointing this out. In the first issue of the 970-page Anuario D.I.C., a sort of Chilean World Almanac, the Direction Informaciones y Cultura denied the popular belief that Chile was 90% Catholic. Its religious breakdown: Freethinkers, 70%; Catholics, 25%; Protestants and others, 5%. The Anurio's explantation: only 25% of the so-called Catholics were regular churchgoers, and therefore "true Catholics...