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...mere 15% of the country's 4,000,000 people, no longer traffic in serfs, and most Indians have their own plot of land. Yet, on the 12,000-ft. Andean plateau, where 75% of Bolivians live, the peasants still sleep on dried llama fetuses to cure what ails them, still subsist mainly on dried potatoes. The U.S. put great store in President Victor Paz Estenssoro, who made a start at bringing his country into the 20th century, but was so heavy-handed about it that he was overthrown by a military coup last November. Air Force General Rene...
...head-to-head campaign against Chile's powerful, Communist-dominated leftists, Frei (pronounced Fray) was swept into office with 54% of the vote, the greatest plurality in Chilean history. He won partly because of his own magnetism, partly because of his ambitious ideas to cure Chile's many economic and social ills. Yet in office he has been stymied by a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats control only 24 of 147 Assembly seats and nine of 45 seats in the Senate. His opponents in six other parties have blocked him to the point where...
...scrap metal, to oxygen furnaces, which use only 27% scrap. The price an auto wrecker gets for his scrap has fallen to around $10 a car, with the result that many wreckers have allowed car carcasses to pile up, in hopes of a rise in the market. One hopeful cure for this national eyesore was proposed this month by Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, who announced that the Bureau of Mines has developed a new process that uses scrapped autos to upgrade nonmagnetic iron ore and make it suitable for steelmaking...
...legs to the trunk. An all-around girdle is not so likely to have this effect, even if tight, because blood and lymph find alternate return channels on the inner side of the thighs. Once the "dependent edema" caused by tight panty girdles has been diagnosed, the prescription for cure is simple and straightforward: throw away the girdle...
...aerosol can to compete with Gillette's Right Guard. Schwartz has about ten products in the secret stage of development, but professes disappointment that his scientists have failed to devise the perfect product. "After all," he smiles, "we still don't have a pill to cure death or cussedness." He has, however, made a start on the latter: one of his major prescription drugs contains a tranquilizing agent...