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Died. Carlos Dávila, 68, Provisional President of Chile in 1932, Ambassador to the U.S. 1927-31, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States since 1954, noted South American journalist and editor; of cancer; in Washington...
Einaudi returned to Cambridge last weekend after spending the last 15 days in South America. He is the special assistant to the International Vice-President of the National Students Association, and was in Chile from Oct. 9-13 attending a world-wide conference...
...catastrophe that hit the birds in 1942. A warm current called El Niño* crept down the coast of Peru. It drove the anchovetas away and starved millions of guano birds. Next time, the company intends to have a chain of walled-off peninsulas all the way to Chile. Then the birds can fly south by easy hops, and escape death-dealing...
...still more in their hand-pumping greetings along the crowded, glass-walled corridors 500 delegates from 60 nations talked up "the Geneva spirit" that appeared to be abating tensions. In token of the new cordiality, the Assembly on the first ballot chose its president by unanimous vote. He is Chile's portly, polished Jose Maza, 66, a U.N. parliamentarian of ten years' standing. With Molotov protesting only mildly for the record, the Assembly voted for the sixth year (42-to-12) against considering Red China for membership. But after Molotov's standpat opening speech, only...
...week earlier Origins. Born Sept. 17, 1896. in Buenos Aires, son of a music teacher of Italian descent. Family name was originally Leonardi Military Career. Graduated from the national military academy as artillery lieutenant. Taught tactics at Superior War College in 1930s. Appointed Argentine military attaché in Santiago, Chile in 1943, where he succeeded Colonel Juan Perón who had been suspected of espionage by Chilean government. Served as Argentina's representative on Inter-American Defense Board in Washington in 1947-48. Retired as two-star general in 1951 after dismissal from command of Frist Army...