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...middle-income traveler who, I.H.C. officials think, will be their biggest customer in future. As such, it is only the newest unit in Pan Am's long-range plan for increasing tourist traffic from the U.S. by supplying better hotels for travelers. I.H.C. already manages hotels in Belem, Santiago and Barranquilla, owns and operates Mexico City's Reforma and will take over Bermuda's Princess Hotel on lease...
...five-minute ceremony in Santiago's Congressional Hall of Honor last week, General Carlos Ibanez formally donned the broad red-white-&-blue presidential sash. Thus, 21 years after Chileans overthrew his dictatorship, the general returned to office as the republic's constitutional chief, chosen in a free and fair election...
Except for the President's palace, the most famous address in Chile was once 49 Doce de Febrero, Santiago. Here was the center of Chile's intellectual life, the home of a slight, courtly figure known as "Don J.T." Until his death in 1930, Jose Toribio Medina reigned as Chile's cultural grandee, dispensing advice and talk to all who came to see him. Scholars and celebrities flocked to him, and it was even a tradition for foreign diplomats to pay their respects soon after they arrived in town...
Bugs & Vampires. The son of a Santiago judge, Don J.T. did not start out to lead so many lives. As soon as he graduated from the Institute Nacional at 16, he was bundled off to the University of Chile to study law. The course was supposed to ake five years, but Medina tossed it off in three...
...impressed by the high regard in which TIME'S correspondents are held in most Latin American capitals. Once, when he was with Chilean Correspondent Mario Planet, who was buying stamps at a hotel desk, the clerk pointed to Planet and told Stephens: "Here is the best reporter in Santiago...