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...that if it were magically moved it could serve as a land bridge from Boston to Belfast. Chileans are 90% literate and obstinately democratic, but by a quirk they have elected as their President a man who was once their dictator: General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo...
...says Roy H. Glover, board chairman of Anaconda Co., "is the greatest and most important development in copper mining in Chile since the initiation in 1914 of Chuquicamata" -and famed Chuquicamata is the world's biggest copper ore body. Last week Chile's President Carlos Ibañez gave Anaconda* an official go-ahead to spend $53 million toward making Indio Muerto an active producer for the booming international copper market...
...story sounded phony, vinegary Max Bilgray could also summon a waiter and say coldly: "Bring Mr. Smith the key to the crying room." In a warm salute to Bilgray, President Ricardo ("Dickie") Arias recently drove across the isthmus and awarded him Panama's Order of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa-doubtless a unique honor for a saloonkeeper. Bilgray will not leave Panama now that he has retired; he intends to live out his days in Colón until...
...sure to like Uruguay's President. The nephew, protégé and successor of Statesman José Batlle y Ordóñez (who 50 years ago implanted modern democracy in a country battered by civil war), Batlle Berres, 58, is an engaging blend of hotheaded leader and old-shoe egalitarian. As a newspaper publisher, radio-station operator and politico, he seems to speak authentically for his liberty-loving little (pop. 3,000,000) nation...
Thus did John Keats, with a poet's fine contempt for quibbling research,* immortalize the moment in 1513 when Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first recorded European to gaze upon the Pacific Ocean. Balboa's discovery led to the conquest of Peru, and by 1535 the Spaniards were feverishly carting the gold and silver loot of the luckless Incas over Panama's Camino Real (Royal Road) to the tall treasure galleons that sailed for Spain. Last week a 28-year-old U.S. Army lieutenant, who has already retraced Balboa's path...