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...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...
...south Chilean lake, and crash-dived aboard a U.S. submarine off Valparaiso. In his fancy presidential DC-3, he has visited so many local fairs that Chileans are sure his travels already exceed those of all his predecessors put together. Their nickname for their traveling President: "Don Gavion" (Mr. Airplane...
Last week, Don Gavion was off for the antarctic on his most venturesome voyage yet. He got the idea when his antarctic expert and army chief, General Ramón Cañas Montalva, returned from the south. "The way to enforce our claims to the antarctic," he told the President, "is to take possession...
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