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Frei offered no revolutions. The tall, hawk-nosed Senator said he would work for slum redevelopment, tighter regulation of the U.S.-owned copper mines, more diversified industry, land reform -but all within a pro-West, democratic framework. "There is no need to regiment the life of the nation under the iron fist of dictatorship," he said last week. "Much less do we need an ideology that is deeply split between Moscow and Peking...
...conservative Alessandri cannot succeed himself. When 2,500,000 Chilean voters go to the polls on Sept. 4, they will choose between two main candidates, both left-of-center: Salvador Allende, 56, rasping, demagogic leader of the far-left Popular Action Front (FRAP), and Eduardo Frei, 53, the forceful, hawk-nosed head of the Christian Democratic Party. In the 1958 elections, Allende came within a hairbreadth 29,000 votes of becoming the Hemisphere's first avowed Marxist to be freely elected President. This time -even before the break with Cuba-Allende figured to make it close again...
Australian retailing was still in the Middle Ages when such practices were first introduced to Aussie shoppers by Sidney Myer, a penniless Russian Jew who emigrated to Australia in 1905 and began to hawk merchandise from his back, not far from Melbourne. He moved up to a pushcart, then to a rented store, and by 1911 had amassed enough money to buy a small general store in Melbourne-right on the present site of Myer's. He quickly became the city's most successful businessman, outraging competitors by such novel practices as introducing "price leaders" to attract customers...
Hitting the Road. The recon sweeps were made by Navy jets from the U.S. 7th Fleet aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, lying off South Viet Nam in the South China Sea. Prime target for the planes high-speed, still-photo lenses was Route 7, a ribbon of dirt snaking out of Communist North Viet Nam into Laos. Known by Laotians as Thang Nay, or the Big Road, Route 7 has long been used by North Viet Nam's Reds to truck men and guns to the Pathet Lao (up to 400 vehicles a day), in open violation of Laos...
Much of it, to be sure, has a tacky, plastic, here-today-blown-tomorrow look, as if it were a city made of credit cards. But much of it has grace and substance. From nations to corporations, everybody is there to hawk and hornblow. All the crammed buildings are engaged in a mad struggle for attention. And somehow, in its jostling, heedless, undisciplined energy, it makes a person happy to be alive in the 20th century...