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...before it goes into effect, the deal will give the government a 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper Co. and a 25% interest in two new U.S. mining ventures, the most promising of which will extend operations at Chuquicamata, already the world's largest open-pit copper mine (TIME, Jan. 1). Nationalists and leftists in Congress are not likely to act on that presidential idea either. They accuse Frei of selling out to the Yanquis, and clamor for outright nationalization of the nearly $1 billion worth of U.S. copper interests in Chile...
High jumper Chris Pardee cleared 6-3 on his first jump, then apparently went over 6-10. But the bar fell after he waited three seconds in the pit, and Pardee had to settle for fourth place behind Richard Ross of Southern, who cleared seven feet...
Since the theater's arena stage has no orchestra pit, Conductor Thomas Nee had to direct his 30 musicians behind a scrim curtain at the rear of the set. He followed the action over stereophonic earphones, delivered his cues to a closed-circuit TV camera that the cast monitored on two concealed screens...
...candidacy is dead, but those who refused to count her votes, our votes, live on. For what they did Monday they bear the curse of cain, the albatross, and the scarlet letter. They were born bureaucrats, and bureaucrats they will remain. May they be drowned in a pit of red tape and their death certificates notarized in quadruplicate. Christian Brannon
...shorter, the inexorably regulated pace successfully suggests that time and routine, resignation and insight, are more crucial than crises of escape or rape. When the man finally is presented with a chance for freedom, he walks to the sea he longed to view, but returns willingly to the sand pit. "There's no need to run away yet," he muses...