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When Mrs. Eugene Kupferstein went to Williamsburgh General Hospital in Brooklyn for her first delivery, her physician confidently promised her two babies. Sure enough, Dr. Isaac Diamond soon delivered a 4 Ib. 8 oz. boy who was named Aaron. But the second baby showed no sign of being ready to be born, as it should have if the two had been ordinary twins. So Dr. Diamond induced labor, and late that night Mrs. Kupferstein gave birth to a second boy (4 Ibs. 13 oz.) named Herman. Said Dr. Diamond: the boys, though born to the same mother on the same...
Argentina's Juan Perón summoned his Congress into special session last week to vote him permission* to visit Chile later this month as the guest of his old friend and fellow general, President Carlos Ibáñez. During the seven-day trip, Perón expects to visit Santiago and Valparaiso, and to sign a treaty trading Argentine steers for Chilean copper...
...with a neighbor. Like Perón himself, Chile's new President is in favor of forming a Latin American economic bloc to give Latinos a better bargaining position in exchanging their raw materials for U.S. manufactured goods. Perón hopes to reach a firm understanding with Ibáñez, then sign up other republics...
...firms, the junta risked the collapse of Bolivia's tottering economy to wage a war of bluff with Stuart Symington, then head of RFC, trying to force him to buy Bolivia's tin for the U.S. near the Korea-scare price of $1.90 a Ib. Soon food ran short in Bolivian cities. Paz's nationalists shouted: "Bread for the People!" and raised him to power in a bloody revolt last April...
...supplies, peace with his miners, and a long-term contract for sale of Bolivia's tin. With huge private investments already under pressure in such neighboring countries as Venezuela, the U.S. cannot openly condone Bolivian nationalization. The RFC, which resumed buying Bolivian tin (at $1.17½ a Ib.) after Paz's revolution, stopped when nationalization occurred. Yet from a strategic standpoint, Bolivia's tin (only 20% of the world's nowadays, but the sole supply in the western hemisphere) is essential...