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...last quarter century, honors have converged on the quiet professor. From 1933 to 1948 he was president of the International Commission of Snow and Glaciers. He was asked to help set up snow surveys in many western states, and in Norway, Sweden, Canada, Newfoundland, India, Switzerland, Russia, Chile and Argentina. His most difficult job was in the Himalayas, where most of the snow lies above 17,000 ft. He made the grueling survey, which would have stopped many a younger man, in 1947, when...
...Paraguay. 4. Brazil. 5. Chile...
President Gabriel González Videla announced last week that uranium had been discovered in Chile. Geologists of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, secretly brought in last year by the Chilean Development Corp. (Fomento) to explore likely areas in north central Chile, found two deposits near La Serena and Vallenar. Proclaiming that "the discovery will bring the country unsuspected wealth," President González asked Congress for a law that will place all Chilean Uranium under government control...
Married. Leonard Bernstein, 33, conductor and composer (Fancy Free ballet; the Jeremiah and Age of Anxiety symphonies); and Felicia Montealegre, 24, Chile-born TV actress; in Boston...
Dark Victory. In La Unión, Chile, Farmer Osvaldo Riquelme heard noises from his chicken house, ran to investigate, strangled what he thought was an intruding dog, learned by daylight that he had killed a large black puma...