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...Chile cracked and heaved last week under the force of its fifth major earthquake in two days, a six-year-old boy in Puerto Montt snatched up his baby brothers, tucked one under each arm and tried to run. Walls twisted and split above him. The earth beneath rocked so crazily that he could not move his feet. Then an avalanche of crumbled masonry buried him to the neck. When he was dug out, his brothers were dead-and in the shock and fright of his own eyes was the measure of Chile's disaster...
Fragile Crust. Geologically, Chile is in a mountain-building period, thrusting up the Andes Mountains over slow-moving heat currents in the solid layer beneath the earth's crust. When the heat currents flow evenly, the surface holds steady. When the currents vary, they put strains on the crust, which slips ponderously along lines of weakness called fault lines. The magnified result of such slips can be devastating to humans and their buildings on the earth's surface. Transferred to the sea, the giant push creates huge seismic waves...
Raps & a Reply. As always, the U.S. came in for raps. President Eisenhower, cried the government-owned Radio Mambi, was an "aged golf player" who needed a nurse to "wipe away the slobber that drools from his lips." But the U.S. was in good company. Chile's President Jorge Alessandri's democracy has been called "rotten," he himself "a servile satellite of the United States." Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi, said another Mambi broadcast, was "pro-imperialist, a man who rules his country with murderous bayonets," and Mexico's Adolfo López Mateos...
...world which had more cars per capita in 1928 than it does now. Many a Buenos Aires taxi is over 30. Taxis chug along, doors tied shut with string, bodies rocking precariously on chassis, drivers flailing their arms to compensate for 180° of steering-wheel play. In Chile, where the buyer of a $2,000 U.S. car must post an import-discouraging $20,000 bond for three months, some 60% of the country's 54,429 cars are pre-World War II vintage. "They are strong like a tank and high like a horse," says Farmer Mario Herrera...
...Chilean strongman who forced his way to the presidency in 1927, held office until 1931, was elected to a second term (1952-58) by a huge majority because of popular disgust with inflation but initiated economic reforms only at the cost of his popularity; of cancer; in Santiago, Chile...