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...mile trip back from Greenwich Island and Graham Land was; rough and uncomfortable. Polar gales churned the iceberg-haunted seas until the transport Presidente Pinto ran for shelter among the rainswept islands north of Cape Horn. But Chile's far-faring President Gabriel González Videla was in high spirits. His voyage to nail down Chilean Claims to Antarctic territories also claimed by the British had made him the most popular man in his country...
Gabriel González of Chile was not even listening. As the Presidente Pinto approached the Strait of Magellan, he radioed triumphantly: "It is possible there is uranium in the Antarctic. I am personally carrying many ore samples that I will have analyzed in Santiago...
...Santiago. Once at sea, the reporters were permitted to radio that "the President was steaming south to take personal possession of the Chilean antarctic." González sailed right past Punta Arenas. At Fortescue, near Chile's southern tip, his party boarded the Chilean navy transport President Pinto...
From the Brazilian heartland last summer came stories of a "miracle man" whose blessing cured the sick in mind and body. The healer was a humble parish priest named Padre Antonio Ribeiro Pinto. By last week he had become a national figure. To seek his blessing, thousands of Brazilians were traveling by special train, by chartered taxi and by bus and truck from as far south as Porto Alegre and as far north as Bahía. Reported TIME Correspondent William White, who went to see for himself...
Fellow Congressmen raged. Abashed for once in his life, Barreto Pinto took refuge in a libel suit, charged that Photographer Manzon had used montage tricks, had promised to snap him only from the waist up. As Barreto Pinto's own Labor Party prepared to expel him if he lost his case, he beat them to the punch by resigning...