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...Chile's Benjamin Alberto Cohen, flyweight diplomat, welterweight newsman, and heavyweight samba & rumba expert, heads the Department of Public Information, which distributes painfully impartial U.N. news to the world. Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev, a Soviet expert on international law and one of Russia's less prickly emissaries, heads the Department of Security Council Affairs. The others: Economics-David Kemp Owen, mountain-climbing, poetry-loving Welshman and Foreign Office career man; Administrative & Financial Services-Kentucky's thin-shelled John B. Hutson, former director of the tobacco, sugar, rice & peanuts division of AAA; Social Affairs-sharp-eyed Henri Laugier, former...
...Moneda, Chile's White House, lively new President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla gave a big dance and reception. Invitations read "tails and decorations." Gonzalez Videla's old ambassadorial friend from Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, the vice presidents from Argentina, Peru and Brazil all turned up in their best bibs & tuckers...
...Chile's new President enjoyed the military trappings, announced that he was all for keeping the fireworks-abroad. Questioned about the U.S. Army-sponsored Hemispheric Defense Plan (TIME, June 24). Gonzalez Videla said: "The armaments race has been one of the bad factors in Latin America. . . . We are too poor to bear the load and [we] need the money to raise [our] standard of living. As a Chilean and ... an American, I am, frankly, an enemy of over-arming...
...Chile. Looking northward, the first of the five Andean republics is Chile, where spring had come hesitantly, like a girl from the sea, wet and cool. It was bad news for vineyardists that the wine crop was badly damaged by late frosts. It was bad news for Chilenos in general. Next year the common grades of wine might have to go above 18? a gallon (the same price as gasoline) and that would go hard with a nation which bows not even to the U.S. in its liking for alcohol...
...bright feature of No Leave, No Love: a too-brief specialty act by Frank ("Sugar Chile") Robinson. This remarkable, seven-year-old, 50-lb. Negro prodigy sings and plays boogie-woogie piano with his soul, eyes, fingers, fists and elbows...