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...lota." At week's start, the President called a three-hour White House meeting of scientific and military advisers. They brought him up to date on Sputnik, with particular attention to the spectacular and ominous rocket-thrust required to push so heavy a satellite into outer space...
...Committee on the Encouragement of Scholarship announced yesterday that the lota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe will award five prizes of $25.00 each this Spring. Three of these prizes will be for original compositions in the fields of Science, Fiction and Social Studies. The remaining two will be for the best original poem and musical composition...
...Radcliffe juniors have been elected to Phi Bota Kappa, Mrs. Hyman B. Ullian, president of the lota Chapter, announced yesterday...
...week's end, Gonzalez faced what he called another Communist attempt to oust his government. At the undersea coal mines at Lota, south of Santiago, hundreds of strikers (according to official reports) tried to seize the mines. There were also walkouts in the nitrate and copper mines of northern Chile. Again moving quickly, Gonzalez sent armed forces into six strike-hit provinces with orders to take over mines and communications and isolate the strike areas...
Chile's mountain riches will supply the raw materials: ore from Bethlehem's El Tofo mines, 500 miles up the coast; coal from the undersea veins of nearby Lota; power from Fomento's hydroelectric plant at neighboring El Abánico. Only limestone has been a problem. To get it, a crew of 130 men, with rat-hungry cats, is now setting up installations on rainy, rat-infested Madre de Dios Island, 900 miles down the coast...