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...half-Indian) store clerk one day let a prospector settle a $250 account for a claim to a tin mine. The clerk's boss, outraged by the deal, gave him the claim and made him pay the bill. That was how, at the turn of the century, cholo Simón I. Patiño got into the tin business. For years, he and his sinewy wife wielded picks, hauled up buckets, smashed ore. By 1910, they were rich...
...Died. Simón I. Patiño, 86, Bolivian tin king whose whopping fortune (estimate: $300-$500 million) got bigger almost every time a housewife opened a tin can; in Buenos Aires (see LATIN AMERICA...
...members of the junta have a record of past employment with tin barons Simón Patiño and Mauricio Hochschild. There are leftists in the junta too, but no known Communists. Offstage, among the tough Indian miners, there are powerful leftist forces. Now they may go over to scholarly José Antonio Arze who is marshaling his P.I.R. (Leftist Revolutionary Party) for position. But he is torn between desire for power and fear that, once in command, his Socialist program might fail. Marxist Arze, who says he is no Communist, well knows that Bolivian Socialists can never nationalize...
...highly unlikely that Mr. King, who is fond of reading the Bible, had read Bernard Clare; and he has nothing to do with censorship. The book had been banned by David Sim, an able official of the Customs and Excise department who detests the censorship phase...
America in Small. Mrs. Sim, a white-haired grandmother, still chats occasionally in German with her husband, a 72-year-old professor emeritus of economic history at Columbia. German was the language of their romance 53 years ago at the University of Berlin (when he spoke no English and she knew no Russian). For relaxation Mrs. Sim attends concerts ("I'm just a musician gone wrong") or walks briskly around the Village, blithely ignoring the traffic lights...