Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life sciences center, for" example, electrical engineers, physicists, chemists, mathematicians, medical men, biophysicists, biochemists, microbiologists and electron-microscope experts all pool their skills. The life sciences center is a prime customer for Chilean fishermen, who ship to Cambridge the nerve fibers of a giant squid found off Chile's coast. The size of the fibers makes them relatively easy to work with, and M.I.T.'s life scientists, combining their efforts, have become more or less familiar with most of the chemical molecules that make the fiber work. Their ultimate aim: to understand the basic nature of nerve impulses...
...businessmen in India to build as many as 15 small (150,000 tons a year) steel mills, scattered about the country, that would use local ore and coal to meet the needs of nearby markets. Each mill would cost less than $12 million. Other countries interested are Nigeria, Egypt, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, the Philippines and Morocco...
...Chile: Robert Forbes Woodward, 52, currently Ambassador to Uruguay. Able Bob Woodward has spent nearly all of his 30-year State Department career in Latin American affairs, managing to retain an unruffled Minnesota disposition...
...Builders. Some Latin American lands have bucked the trend of falling U.S. investments. Argentina and Colombia each boasted increases of more than 20% in new U.S. investment last year. New private U.S. investments rose to $70 million in Argentina, an estimated $22 million in Colombia. Chile's share of U.S. investment in the Western Hemisphere has been climbing since 1958, and U.S.-owned copper companies alone plan to invest an additional $250 million there in the next four years. In Brazil, which has more U.S.-owned factory capacity than any other foreign nation save Canada or the United Kingdom...
...experience of the trend buckers offers an obvious prescription for attracting U.S. investment in 1961: the open encouragement of private enterprise. Three of the four nations that increased their intake of U.S. capital in 1960 have tough-minded builder Presidents: Chile with Industrialist Jorge Alessandri, Colombia with austerity-minded Alberto Lleras Camargo, Argentina with its determined foe of statism, Arturo Frondizi. As for Brazil's free-swinging Jânío Quadros, U.S. businessmen have concluded from his performance so far that he promises to be as conservative in economics as he is radical in politics and diplomacy...