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the wealthy and poor was very great. The annual per person income of the upper five percent of the population was estimated to be $2,300, and that of the lower 50 percent was about $140. Racial differences were not a particular factor, although there was a noticeable darkening of the skin color as one descended the socioeconomic scale, due to intermarrying with Indians (p. 21).

Chile in the early 1960's was neither a closed society nor an egalitarian society but somewhere in between with

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