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...Frondizi that paid off. Bucking emotional Argentine nationalism, Frondizi last year invented an imaginative patchwork of "service and development" contracts between foreign oil companies and the state monopoly, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF). The device has paid off in 17 months with more than 100 new wells from chilly Tierra del Fuego to mountain country near the Bolivian border. Oil production is up 30%, to 44 million bbl. a year...
...Buenos Aires to New York (although last week the scooter manufacturer was being sticky about free samples), and it is possible that they will meet Fellow Scholar Brian Moser heading in the opposite direction. He plans to spend a year riding a horse from Colombia to the wind-lashed Tierra del Fuego, near the southern tip of the continent. As he limbers up, another Cambridge group far off in the Belgian Congo will be busy at their study of nematode worms...
...TIME'S biggest beats is Latin-America, a reach of 6,000 miles from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego. Reporters fan out from four TIME bureaus; experienced part-time correspondents cover every major city. Copies of the Latin American edition are flown to most of the area the same day that TIME goes on sale...
...British ships hove to off the Pacific islet Más a Tierra, one day in 1709, and prepared to take on fresh water. When the crew glimpsed flashing lights on the supposedly uninhabited island, an armed small boat was sent in to investigate. Awaiting the sailors on the beach, waving his arms and dancing, was an extraordinary figure "cloth'd in Goat-Skins, who look'd wilder than the first Owners of them. He had been [cast away] on the Island Four Years and four Months . . His name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotch...
After the icy blasts and terrors of Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn, sundrenched Tahiti, lazing in the trade winds, seemed a double paradise. The island girls proved eager for the transports, if not the transits, of Venus. To Cook's 18th century mind, it was a matter of their being noble savages "who have not even the idea of indecency" but did have early know-how: "In other countries the girls and unmarried women are supposed to be wholly ignorant of what others upon occasions may appear to know . . . but here it is just contrary. Among other diversions...