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...Chile, Helen Keller, 72, on a two-month Latin American lecture tour, was marooned for three days in the resort city of Chillan by a storm which took ten lives. A Chilean air-force plane, ordered to the scene by President Carlos Ibáñez, came to the rescue...
...prices. Spot domestic copper has been selling for 30? a lb. since March. The first futures contracts indicated that traders thought the price would be down to 28¼? by July and by year's end down to 26½?. Still a holdout in the world market is Chile, keeping its price at 35½? f.o.b. But it looks as if Chile will have to drop its prices too, especially since Britain plans to resume free trading in copper in August when it will start releasing metal from its 200,000-ton stockpile...
Lean and clear-eyed, Walter Gropius acts like a young man in a hurry. He has plans to visit South Africa, Chile, Australia. "I am going to Brazil later this year, and will visit Japan next year, but much more than to travel," says Gropius. "I want to work...
...Catholic Church in Italy condemned it, and the Communists distributed handbills attacking it-Malaparte is now going ahead with his next film. It will be a movie version of Robinson Crusoe, which he plans to shoot this fall on the Juan Fernandez Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Chile, the scene of the actual story that inspired Defoe. As with Strange Deception, he sees the theme of his next picture as an expression of "how people . . . can reconstruct, outside of existing institutions and helped only by their own moral instinct and by their own experience of good...
...Brazil's Senate voted final approval, 40 to 8, of the Bilateral Military Assistance pact. Brazil agreed to supply strategic materials to the U.S.; in return, the U.S. will provide Brazil with technical military assistance and training equipment. The pact, similar to others signed with Chile, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic, had long been blocked and bitterly attacked by Communists and extreme nationalists as a slur on Brazil's "sovereignty." To preside over the joint Brazilian-U.S. military commission, President Vargas appointed Brigadier Eduardo Gomes, his 1950 election opponent...