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...youngest member of the clan was christened Gabriel Archangelovich First, and dedicated "to the service of God and humanity." Last week little Gabriel's name was in the "White Book," a catalogue of those who "renounce themselves and private family ties to become eligible for membership in the universal family of whom the head is Christ and the Father in Heaven." The term "first" was used in lieu of a last name since "the earthly father is totally discounted." After christening, the earthly mother renounced her maternal ties (as will future mothers), turned Gabriel over to the joint parenthood...
Convalescing after a minor operation, President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla got the bulletins at his seaside home in Viña del Mar. An old hand at tackling crises, he ordered his plane made ready for the short flight to the capital, returned to La Moneda on the second day of the rioting...
General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny is commander in chief -theoretically-of West Europe's land forces, and the man to whom the most crucial task would fall if the Russians attacked tomorrow. He is also the most striking member of a strange military organism known as Uniforce, which for nine months has quietly tried to plan the defense of Western Europe. The progress & problems of Uniforce throw a light on the issue before the U.S. Congress...
Some 40,000 santiaguinos suffered from the disease, including President Gabriel González Videla and Interior Minister Admiral Immanuel Holger. Characterized by high fever and acute stomach pains, this year's influenza-like grippe was far more serious than the native garrotazo (literally, "clubbing"), which has afflicted Chileans for decades. Said Dr. Mario Plaza de los Reyes, a leading Santiago physician: "I've examined 30 cases and found in all of them symptoms similar to European grippe...
...decline had already brought a $32.5 million-loss in this year's foreign exchange budget. The production cut also meant a fall of 1.8 billion pesos in the taxes that Chile collects on mine operations. "If this situation had presented itself in 1952 instead of 1949," sighed President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, "it would have been of no importance." But at a time when Chile's industrial development program (TIME, May 30) was still far from paying its own way, it was as important as life's blood...