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Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, President of Chile, is the leader of a country whose 5½ million people are known as the yanquis of South America-a mildly left-handed compliment to their drive and thoroughness. The U.S. has returned the compliment by giving Chile more financial aid than any other South American government. This week, accompanied by his handsome wife Rosa (nicknamed "Mitty") and daughter Sylvia, 51-year-old President Gonzalez was scheduled to arrive in Washington for a state visit...
...city. As President, he has sailed south to lay claim in person to a big piece of the Antarctic, crash-dived in a U.S. submarine off Valparaiso, and tipped over and nearly lost his life canoeing on a south Chilean river. He loves flying, is known all over Chile as "Don Gavion." On a typical weekend at his summer palace at oceanside Vina del Mar, Gonzalez gets in a three-hour canter, a couple of swims, an hour or two at the piano (his current favorite: Brahms), and all the tennis there is time...
...America, U.S. businessmen were running into this sort of competition from Europe. In Caracas, Importer Eugenio Mendoza explained that he had stopped buying U.S. structural steel because Belgian, German and Luxembourg firms were offering him the same goods for $40 less than the $104-a-ton U.S. price. In Chile, the national airlines ordered British De Havilland transports. Salvadorean textile men found they could buy Italian rayon fiber for io/ a Ib. less than the U.S. article. In Lima's streets, women wore British nylons...
...market abroad. The U.S. will probably keep many of its wartime gains. In the Caribbean countries it will continue to dominate trade for the good reason that its business there runs on a two-way street. But in Argentina and Uruguay, and to a lesser extent in Brazil, Chile and Peru, the U.S. will have to reconcile itself to the European trend...
...cold, disciplined unity of purpose, Chile had never seen anything like...