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Juan Peron, Argentina's onetime strongman, has said repeatedly that he would return to his homeland "when the people tell me the bollo [roll] is ready for the oven." Apparently the bollo is now ready. In Buenos Aires, Peron's top aide, Hector Compara, announced that el Lider would arrive in Argentina on Nov. 17, thus ending 17 years of exile abroad, most of it spent in princely isolation in Madrid...
...Smith served a clean ace only to have a Rumanian linesman call it out. Another time a linesman belatedly ruled that an obviously bad Tiriac serve was out-only after Smith had whipped the return past the Rumanian. The calls became so bad that the referee, Enrique Morea of Argentina, took the unprecedented step of expelling one of the linesmen. He would probably have liked to include most of the stadium. The fans repeatedly ignored pleas for "liniste" (silence), and cheered wildly at every American mistake. When the small American section offered up cheers, the rest of the gallery...
...Englishmen, I'll See You Again, Someday I'll Find You and I'll Follow My Secret Heart. These songs seem always to have existed, yet their sentiments are fresh as first love. The show also contains less familiar Coward, like Nina, a balky girl from Argentina who absolutely refused to "begin the beguine," and cursed people who "besought her to./ She cursed Cole Porter too." In A Bar on the Piccola Marina we meet the playful widow, Mrs. Wentworth Brewster, who was delighted when some young Italian sailors goosed her. And so it goes...
Social Ills. Despite the built-in contradiction-how can a place be inviolate and used at the same time?-the U.S. example has stirred other nations to emulation; by now, 102 countries from Australia to Zaïre, from Japan to Argentina, have set up some 1,200 national parks of their own. Their parks specialists gathered in Yellowstone last week to discuss mutual problems at the Second World Conference on National Parks...
...they have inherited none of the redeeming qualities of European bees, while keeping the African strain's viciousness and wanderlust. As a result, according to a report recently released jointly by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, they have taken over an area from Argentina's temperate pampas to the Amazon's tropical forests...