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...Tiki from Peru to Tahiti set him off again. Determined to reverse Heyerdahl's course, De Bisschop pushed off from Tahiti on a similar raft, traveled 5,000 miles, only to have the raft break up under him in a tremendous gale 840 miles from the coast of Chile. Besides the adventure of it, De Bisschop hoped to prove that Polynesian seafarers had colonized all the Pacific from Indonesia to South America. Last April he left Peru aboard a new raft bound for Tahiti, but wind, wave and current carried him far north until last week...
...counts himself a friend of the U.S. Alessandri's victory over the second-place candidate, Socialist Salvador Allende, was a close (387,292 votes to 352,915) but clear triumph of the conservative right over the Red-lining left. The defeated Allende was backed by Chile's newly legalized Communists. They were not enough to elect him for the next six years...
Poverty Ticket. Behind him, Alessandri left three other also-rans, who had little chance. All told, they polled only 40% of the total 1,227,575 vote. Chile's staggering economy provides the kind of black-and-white issues that favored Conservative Alessandri and Socialist Allende. Though outgoing President Carlos Ibanez struggled to hold the shoestring republic's frayed economy together, he leaves 170,000 unemployed out of a 2,000,000-man labor force, 1,000,000 homeless, a 10% slump in industrial production, an external debt of $718 million. Defeated Socialist Allende missed not a drumbeat...
Businessman Alessandri offers Chile no such paradise. He believes in close economic ties with the West, a soundly managed private enterprise at home. He expects to run a strong government, one that will press for much-needed increases in production per worker without an inflationary jack-up in wages. One of his first goals is to reform the costly, featherbedding social-security system. And he also hopes to save some of Chile's vital copper income produced in times of high prices to tide the country over inevitable slumps in world copper markets...
Easter Island, a pinpoint in the wide Pacific 2,000 miles west of Chile and 1,000 miles from the nearest inhabited place, has long presented scientists with a stony enigma. Somehow, some time in the past, an industrious people carved out hundreds of stone statues of big-nosed, long-eared men and moved the figures, weighing up to 50 tons, from inside an extinct volcano to stone platforms rimming the island. According to archaeological evidence, the job was done without metal, without knowledge of the wheel, without technical aids save poles and fiber ropes. How could this feat...