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...students demonstrated against Castro. In San José, Costa Rica, students at the city's eight high schools walked out to demand a break in diplomatic relations, and President Mario Echandi deplored the restricting "principle of nonintervention which seems every day more unsuitable to inter-American unity." Chile's President Alessandri blamed the Communist bloc for the "disquieting situation in the hemisphere." Mexico, from whose shores Castro launched his original invasion of Cuba, is the nation still most dedicated to Castro's cause, and though President López Mateos, a middle-of-the-roader, might have...
...life sciences center, for" example, electrical engineers, physicists, chemists, mathematicians, medical men, biophysicists, biochemists, microbiologists and electron-microscope experts all pool their skills. The life sciences center is a prime customer for Chilean fishermen, who ship to Cambridge the nerve fibers of a giant squid found off Chile's coast. The size of the fibers makes them relatively easy to work with, and M.I.T.'s life scientists, combining their efforts, have become more or less familiar with most of the chemical molecules that make the fiber work. Their ultimate aim: to understand the basic nature of nerve impulses...
...businessmen in India to build as many as 15 small (150,000 tons a year) steel mills, scattered about the country, that would use local ore and coal to meet the needs of nearby markets. Each mill would cost less than $12 million. Other countries interested are Nigeria, Egypt, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, the Philippines and Morocco...
...Chile: Robert Forbes Woodward, 52, currently Ambassador to Uruguay. Able Bob Woodward has spent nearly all of his 30-year State Department career in Latin American affairs, managing to retain an unruffled Minnesota disposition...
...experience of the trend buckers offers an obvious prescription for attracting U.S. investment in 1961: the open encouragement of private enterprise. Three of the four nations that increased their intake of U.S. capital in 1960 have tough-minded builder Presidents: Chile with Industrialist Jorge Alessandri, Colombia with austerity-minded Alberto Lleras Camargo, Argentina with its determined foe of statism, Arturo Frondizi. As for Brazil's free-swinging Jânío Quadros, U.S. businessmen have concluded from his performance so far that he promises to be as conservative in economics as he is radical in politics and diplomacy...