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Militarily, the next try, just three months later, was even less brilliant. The rebels under General Eduardo Lonardi took inland Cordoba, but General Aramburu, attempting to subvert the garrison at Curuzu Cuatia, had to get out afoot when Perón poured reinforcements against him. After three days of fighting, Perón's general staff in Buenos Aires correctly concluded that it could contain the uprising-and it probably would have, except for a rebel admiral named Isaac Rojas, who had commanded the uprising at a naval base, was now heading for the capital in the captured cruiser...
...rebel jeep deeper into the cane country around the range as "an American sugar planter who could not speak a word of Spanish," dressed "for a fishing trip"-which proved convincing to patrolling troops. The reporter, with escorts loyal to Castro, reached the foothills at midnight, slithered on afoot. At dawn, through whistled recognition signals, Matthews and Castro were brought together...
...triumph to his credit: a method of converting sugar cane wastes to paper pulp in twelve minutes v. nine hours for the old process. Though he suffered from heart trouble and had to lead a strictly regulated life for the past 20 years, he said: "Still other ventures are afoot, and the days are not long enough for me to take advantage of all the opportunities...
Other ambitious Red Chinese plans afoot...
...conception of the world . . . a system of thinking . . . a basis for civilization." The church-centered histories, biographies and novels that have poured from him since have contributed much to the new stirrings of religion in anticlerical France, where, he feels, "there is a new kind of Catholic movement afoot. It's not organized, but deep...