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Since skiers spend so much of their time upside down anyhow, it made a certain sort of sense to hold the World Alpine Ski Championships last week in Portillo, Chile - where it was the middle of winter, and temperatures dipped to -4°. It was hardly surprising, either, that the French turned up in force and swept practically everything in sight. Who stays in Paris in August, except tourists...
...Chile's President Eduardo Frei is a Christian Democrat who came to office on a platform of sweeping social reform. He has turned out to be a reformer, all right, but of a kind that Chilenos had not quite expected. Seven months ago, he put a crimp in the national afternoon siesta by banning the three-hour lunch break. Then came a prohibition of movies after midnight and the closing of television stations at 11:45 p.m. "A nation that goes to bed late cannot work well the next day," the government explained...
Last month came a ruling that threatened another aspect of bedtime life in Chile. Amid charges of white slavery and dope peddling, Frei's Interior Ministry suddenly banned prostitution and told owners of nightclubs to take the beds out of the back rooms. This was going too far. No sooner had the order been issued than the madams of Santiago descended on the presidential palace in a mass-protest demonstration. They informed Under Secretary of the Interior Juan Hamilton that unless the ban was removed, they would organize into a sort of body politic to oppose the government...
Also, Paper Bags. Then, there is all the action in the mines. Copper output has doubled since 1959, and Anaconda, American Smelting & Refining and Cerro Corp. are considering plans that could double it again by 1970. This would rank Peru with Chile and Zambia as world leaders in copper production. Even cautious old W. R. Grace & Co., which has been packing its bags in most Latin American countries, has announced a $50 million investment in papermaking and other projects over the next five years...
This week copper company representatives from Chile, Peru, Zambia and the Congo are meeting in Lubumbashi, formerly Elisabethville, to consider the situation. But despite the danger to copper, prospects for an early return to the old pegged prices are slim...