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...fortunes. The SEC chronology: On Nov. 10, 1963, Texas Gulf geologists, headed by Kenneth Darke, were drilling on a claim near Timmins when Darke pulled out an impressive core sample of high-grade copper and zinc-so impressive that he hiked ten miles in the snow to reach his Jeep, then drove into town to call company officials. They notified President Stephens immediately, told the geologists to keep in daily touch. The company officials who got the news then swore themselves to secrecy. They had trees planted in and around the drill holes to conceal the site, moved...
...opposition because of his reluctance to abide by the constitution and resign as head of the junta six months before the Sept. 26 elections. One night as he was driving to Cochabamba, a gunman on a motorcycle roared out of the darkness, pumping bullets into the general's Jeep. Barrientos' bulletproof vest, say his aides, stopped two of the slugs; a third hit him in the left buttock. In no time at all, political and nonpolitical friends were beating a path to his bedside. A fellow general who had planned to challenge Barrientos' candidacy hastily withdrew. Other...
...Jorge Jurado (Quito); Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin; New York Researchers Berta Gold, Erika Kraemer and Priscilla Badger. Obviously expert in his craft, if not necessarily in the area, was the man who took the color photographs, J. Alex Langley, who covered the vast and rugged area by truck, Jeep, horse, helicopter, DC-3, and one sortie in a Grumman Goose piloted by a Franciscan priest...
...like Russia," promised the mayor, counting up the take for the local economy. M-G-M was convinced, built a whole Russian village, a rail line and a river-diverting dam. Only the snows never came, and when Lean went scouting for some, he wound up three feet deep, Jeep and all, in an icy marsh. The scene will be tried again next winter-farther north...
...remote areas, sometimes with Viet Cong shells bursting near by, and issued no publicity about it to boost his ratings. He jotted down the names of thousands of servicemen whose relations he called up for a personal report when he got back. Burr hobbled through his most recent Jeep-and-helicopter round last month despite a painfully pinched leg nerve, and though he rarely gabs about Perry Mason (preferring to listen to G.I. gripes), the gunner who flew with him gives the consensus: "Ray Burr is one helluva fine...