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Host of Hidalgos. Leaving no hidalgo unturned, Dutch newspapers variously identified him as Juan Bosco Alvear, son of a rich winegrowing family, who announced that he had "never even met her"; Bilbao's Santiago Ybarra, a steel tycoon, who protested: "I have a girl friend"; dashing young Fernando Elza-buru, who had actually visited The Netherlands and met Irene. Or could her fiance be Prince Alfonso de Borbon, a nephew of Don Juan, the pretender to the Spanish throne? Not likely, said Alfonso, as he flew off to an athletic rally in Czechoslovakia...
Perhaps Not. But unemployment, crushing debts, too many children and too little food are facts of life in the city just as much as they are in the boondocks. Unskilled and unschooled, the migrants simply disappear into Rio's hillside favelas, Caracas' ranchos, Santiago's callampas, the slums that choke every large Latin American city. In a year's time, squatters at the edge of Colombia's port city of Barranquilla turned a bean field into a shantytown of crude huts housing 2,500 people. Lima's slums are growing ten times faster than...
...rush to the cities will be hard to slow down. No matter how uninviting they may seem to others, they will always look good to thousands of people like Carlos Fernandez, who recently left the rural south of Chile for Santiago. "Sometimes I'd listen to the radio," he says, "and Santiago seemed like another country...
...temporaries for panel discussions of the Chilean novel, featuring Sometime Critic Arthur Schlesinger, and theater, featuring Director Jose Quintero. Washington will be invited to a folklore program of song and dance; and Washington's Howard University will put on an exhibition of Chilean art drawn from Santiago's Museum of Contemporary Art and Manhattan's Museum...
...Chileans were slightly more polite. In Santiago, President Jorge Ales-sandri greeted Tito with decorous formality and an evident desire to keep him out of sight. At the official reception in the ornate Palacio Cousino, Tito made only the briefest of appearances and was then hustled off to a private room before he had a chance to talk to anybody. Two of his five days in Chile were spent in complete seclusion at the seaside resort of Vina del Mar. Four of Alessandri's Cabinet ministers had al ready resigned in protest against his policies, and Chilean officials thought...