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...some 60% of the country's 54,429 cars are pre-World War II vintage. "They are strong like a tank and high like a horse," says Farmer Mario Herrera, who gets around the fields in a 1929 Dodge bought by his father. A 1928 Dodge taxi plies Santiago's red-light district in the wee hours, bearing witness to its driver's boast that even "drunks can't destroy...
Something for Survivors. To keep the veterans running, a special breed of geriatric mechanics has grown up in Latin America. They prowl every big city's junkyards (Santiago has ten sprawling "dismounting parks"), searching with a collector's eye for hard-to-find spark adjusters and planetary gears for their pet patients. Last week José Quiroz stood in the doorway of his Santiago garage and watched a 1930 Essex roll up. "There are no more made," he said, "but it's always possible to do a little something for the survivors." One handy Santiago cabbie took...
...letter President Eisenhower received in Santiago last month from the Federation of Chilean Students was serious in tone, and the President took it seriously. He turned it over to the State Department for a careful answer. Last week the answer, edited by the President himself, was delivered in Santiago to Patricio Fernandez, president of the students' federation...
...week's end President Eisenhower, visibly fatigued underneath his sun-reddened complexion, joined President Frondizi at the picturesque (and safe) resort town of Llao Llao (pronounced Zhow Zhow) in the Andes, for two days of discussion and rest. As he got ready to fly on to Santiago and Montevideo this week, Ike could almost sense the friendlier feelings his trip had created, and most Latin Americans seemed to agree with the judgment of Brazil's Kubitschek: "I am fully convinced we are now entering a new phase of understanding and cooperation with our friends and allies, the North...
...Juan was a major victory. An estimated 12,000 U.S. troops in all had sealed off the Spanish stronghold of Santiago, from which 24,000 Spanish troops emerged on July 17, 1898, to surrender. But, thanks to bureaucratic dunderheads, victory had a swift and deadly aftermath. Kept in position through lack of orders, and on starvation rations through lack of supplies, the men sickened, and many died of yellow fever and dysentery. There were no medicines. Taps was sounded so often that it was finally banned at the burials for fear of what was happening to the survivors' morale...