Word: argentina
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...days at its full-blown stage, preceded by weeks of increasingly restless intensity. The symptoms: curious declines in national productivity, chronic absenteeism, peripatesis, extraordinary outbursts of chauvinistic expression. The cure: absolutely none. The malady is World Cup fever, and as teams from 16 nations* descended on host country Argentina last week for this year's play-off for world soccer supremacy, North Americans were more or less on the sidelines: a large portion of humanity was preparing for its ultimate soccer kicks...
...West Germany, home of the defending World Cup champions, one of the most popular songs on the hit parade is a ditty called Buenos Días, Argentina. It features the 22 members of the German national team themselves, and despite the fact that it is, well, awful, the record is expected to sell a million copies by kickoff time. Some 5,000 German fans had bought tickets for the World Cup event at prices ranging from $200 to $333 per seat, and were cheerfully anteing up as much as $3,000 each for air fare and accommodations besides. German...
...since the Highlanders are the only United Kingdom squad in the Cup finals. At Westminster, M.P.s were forced to break with a tradition of holding parliamentary by-elections on Thursdays, when one at Hamilton, near Glasgow, conflicted with World Cup opening ceremonies. Faced with a $2,500 airfare to Argentina, a number of frugal Scottish supporters flew to New York City and hitchhiked south, and at least two made the trip on bicycles...
...modus vivendi, arranged among what he calls the "real social forces," such as the trade unions, industry, the Ministry of the Interior and the police ranks. The risk of such a "deteriorated form of democracy," he said, is that it could deteriorate further into something like the Peronism of Argentina in the 1950s...
...retained the retiring, unassuming ways of the rice-farming community where he was born. Most of his spectacular feats, past and present, have been undertaken alone. These include having climbed four of the highest mountains in the world: Mont Blanc in France, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Aconcagua in Argentina and Mount McKinley in the U.S. To train for his conquest of the North Pole, he made a 7,500-mile trek from Greenland to Alaska by dos sledge...