Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dark Victory. In La Unión, Chile, Farmer Osvaldo Riquelme heard noises from his chicken house, ran to investigate, strangled what he thought was an intruding dog, learned by daylight that he had killed a large black puma...
...Chile's González Videla...
...take over. Result: one of the quietest revolutions in Latin American history. Brigadier General Hugo Ballivián, 49, Chaco War hero, became head of a ten-man junta (three generals, seven colonels). Ex-President Urriolagoitia rode peacefully from the palace to the airport, boarded a plane for Arica, Chile. Not a shot was fired...
...Spokane, Wash., Austrian-born Ski Instructor, and former fire extinguisher salesman, Hans Hauser, husband of gangland's Glamour Girl Virginia Hill, asked U.S. immigration officers for permission to leave his home, take his wife and child south to teach skiing in Chile...
External Pressures. In the U.S., many editors clamored for quick action. The Scripps-Howard papers fumed at the United Nations Economic and Social Council, in session in Chile, for not taking up the question of La Prensa. (The New York World-Telegram & Sun told the pussyfooting council to "get lost.") The Scripps-Howard Washington News offered its columns to La Prensa's editors or to any South American journalist who wanted to state La Prensa's case-a vantage point for argument during the current conference of Foreign Ministers of the American republics (see HEMISPHERE) in Washington. Syndicated...