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...Mambi, was an "aged golf player" who needed a nurse to "wipe away the slobber that drools from his lips." But the U.S. was in good company. Chile's President Jorge Alessandri's democracy has been called "rotten," he himself "a servile satellite of the United States." Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi, said another Mambi broadcast, was "pro-imperialist, a man who rules his country with murderous bayonets," and Mexico's Adolfo López Mateos was the "betrayer of the Mexican Revolution." Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo, said Mambi, plotted the recent uprising against...
With its necklace of colored lights and blinking neon signs, Argentina's only outdoor used-car lot (the "Automart"), in suburban Buenos Aires, looks like its ubiquitous U.S. counterpart run by "Madman Mike" or "Giveaway Gus." Even the sales pitch is the same: "Good Runner!" says a sign plastered to a windshield. But there the similarity ends. Precious few '58s, '59s and '60s shine forth at the Automart. A 1925 T-model Ford is price-tagged at $500; beside it stands a 1930 Dodge at $875; next comes a 1936 British Lagonda...
Timesaver. In Rosario. Argentina, when Tomás Copola was tried for robbery and two prosecution witnesses failed to recognize him. the astounded judge dismissed the case, learned too late that during his two months of detention Copola had carefully dyed his hair and shaved off his bushy mustache...
...whole $150,000 South American travel bill. The weekly 0 Cruzeiro announced it was well aware that the show was an "instrument of Soviet penetration," but added that "a circus is always welcome anywhere on earth, and the Moscow circus is certainly welcome here.'' Next targets: Argentina, Chile, Peru...
...that he will retain control no matter what happens. But the force that really keeps him in power is the same one that keeps the Peronistas from outright rebellion: the Argentine military, which hates Peron and understands Frondizi's development program even though much of the rest of Argentina does not want...