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...White House aides developed a nervous tic of annoyance whenever they were bothered by Bowles. Finally the President summoned his Under Secretary of State to a White House lunch. Figuring that the former adman would quickly get the point, Kennedy gently suggested Bowles might like to become ambassador to Chile...
Bayonets in Recife. Things are a lot livelier for Celia these days. As her son Che's Red star rises higher over Cuba, Mother Guevara has gone into quite an orbit of her own. She buzzed off to decorate a conference of leftist females in Santiago, Chile, in November 1959, returned to whip up enthusiasm for an Argentine branch of Castro's 26th of July movement. She travels to Cuba at least once a year to see her boy. Lately, Celia has capped her career by becoming a kind of Marxist Typhoid Mary, spreading violence wherever she goes...
Nearly 5,000 miles from familiar forests, the traveling New Zealand naturalists were delighted to find that they might well have been tramping their own woodlands. There in the rain forests of southern Chile were vast stands of beech, remarkably similar to the trees of their native land. The damp Chilean glades were greenly upholstered with ferns and mosses almost exactly like those that grow in Australasia. Even swarming insects looked the same as the insects of home. How did delicate plant and insect life ever make the difficult migration across great southern oceans or the hostile icecap of Antarctica...
There are a couple of possible answers, says Zoologist Martin Holdgate, who led the Royal Society's recent expedition to southern Chile. In the British magazine New Scientist, Holdgate traces the probable biological routes between the temperate lands on the opposite sides of the South Pole. Water-resistant seeds of a few plants may have ridden the ocean currents that flow around Antarctica from west to east, he points out, and the dust-small spores of ferns may have been carried far by the prevailing westerly winds. But most plants and insects of the far southern lands cannot survive...
...Nations. Over the years, 175 theatrical troupes from 50 countries have traveled to Paris to offer 745 performances. The Peking opera was the hit of 1960, and this year's schedule brings groups from the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, India, Ireland, Uruguay, Chile, Egypt and South Africa. Just before returning to the U.S., the State Department-sponsored troupe that included Helen Hayes, June Havoc, Leif Erickson and Helen Menken did The Skin of Our Teeth and The Grass Menagerie there. And this week Manhattan's Living Theater group arrives...