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...prone Habaneros, accustomed to doing business in local branches of New York banks, promptly dubbed the institution "Che's National Bank." *Who a fortnight ago joined Che's and Raúl's wives as stars at a Communist-sponsored Women's Congress in Santiago, Chile...
...Canadian tycoons supplemented the basic collection with gifts of their own. Toronto's Matthew James Boylen (asbestos, copper and lead mines) presented the new gallery with 22 Krieghoffs; the estate of the late Sir James Dunn (steel and iron ore) added three Sickerts and Dali's huge Santiago El Grande, whose rearing horse dominates the picture-window gallery. Beaverbrook's favorite ("because I like it") is Gainsborough's Peasant Girl Gathering Faggots, but he also cherishes his own portrait, painted by Great Britain's Graham Sutherland. "Many people see it as a caricature," says Beaverbrook...
...room, Vice President Nixon got a rare burst of applause for his hour-long report on his fortnight behind the Iron Curtain. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, back from Geneva and scheduled to take off this week for a meeting of the American republics' foreign ministers in Santiago, Chile, reported on the Big Four foreign ministers' conference on Berlin, which ended in stalemate after 65 days of futile negotiations (see FOREIGN NEWS). But the Geneva gloom was lightened by hopes of results from Premier Nikita Khrushchev's two-week visit to the U.S. starting...
...Navarrete brought in Topflight Instructor Peter Estin and his ski-school teachers from Vermont's Sugarbush, got Panagra airline (50% Grace-owned) to set a ski-excursion round-trip fare of $420 (regular rate: $678) from Miami, and arranged an inexpensive ($2.50 a day) equipment-rental service in Santiago. Throwing up partitions at Portillo, he figures to expand capacity to 500, with $150,000 worth of ski lifts to haul them all. Even before remodeling and expansion, news of the new Portillo passed around so fast that Navarrete found himself with a season-long full house-plus an overflow...
...ordinary business notice was the letter posted by the Finance Ministry in Santiago last week, urging government contractors to stop in and pick up their monthly checks-cashable immediately. In Chile, where contractors are resigned to waiting years for the government to pay, it was a sign of real progress. In the nine months since Paper Tycoon Jorge Alessandri, 63, moved in as President on a free-enterprise platform, the longtime degeneration of the national economy has been halted, even reversed in spots. Items on the ledger...