Word: coppered
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...glad I'm a poor Guggenheim," says the lady in the silver fingernails with a twinkling pixy's ex pression in her eyes. But a Guggenheim Peggy emphatically is, granddaughter of the U.S. copper magnate, daughter of a millionaire who changed into his dinner jacket while the Titanic sank under him, and niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who bankrolled the Frank Lloyd Wright Museum in Manhattan...
...relations with Moscow.-The U.S. took it with a shrug. "Our ties with Chile are too tight and too deep to be adversely affected," said an embassy spokesman in Santiago. Behind the move is Frei's frankly expressed desire to find new trade markets for Chilean exports, particularly copper. And besides, he adds, "I prefer to have the Russians operating in the open as diplomats." Eventually, the Christian Democratic President plans to establish relations with such Communist-bloc countries as Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. There is one specific exception, though. Cuba will continue to get the freeze from Frei...
...cure the ills, the tall, scholarly Frei has more than a few ideas. Among those in the hard-planning stage: doubling Chile's 630,000-ton annual copper production in six years, vastly expanding the hesitant land reform program begun by his predecessor Jorge Alessandri, building such resources as pulp-yielding trees and the fishing potential of Chile's endless coastline. To help him, the new president has put together one of Latin America's most competent cabinets, drawing men from the top ranks of the professions, business, labor and government...
...What we need is time," Frei begs. The big U.S. copper companies in Chile seem to agree, are talking about paying their 1965 taxes in advance. Even before his inauguration, Frei sent two top aides, Senator Radomiro Tomic...
Still unsolved is a problem involving Curtis' Ontario timberland, which borders on the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. copper strike. That potential asset has been tied up by a stockholders' suit charging that the Curtis directors "unreasonably and fraudulently benefited" by concealing news of the strike until they had voted themselves sizable stock options...