Word: argentina
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...bemedaled then, beset now-symbolizes a growing U.S. distaste for dictators. For decades the U.S. was accused of buttering up strongmen. Eager to thaw anti-Yankee Juan Perón, for example, the State Department sent Latin American Chief Henry Holland to Argentina in 1954 to toast the dictator for "purest sincerity." The U.S. propped Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somosa, who seized power after the Marines pulled out, on Franklin Roosevelt's theory that "he may be an s.o.b., but he's ours." In Peru, Military Strongman Manuel Odria got the Legion of Merit for running...
...Dictator Fulgencio Batista disclosed a recent meeting with a bird of his own feather. Now enjoying uneasy asylum in the Dominican Republic, Batista was strolling along Ciudad Trujillo's seafronting Avenida George Washington, minding his own business, when who should come along, astride a motor scooter, but Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, also on the lam. According to Batista, they chatted about no counterrevolutions, just the weather and other pleasantries. Observed Batista: "Perón has got a good sense of humor and he was very friendly...
...Argentina's Andean resort of San Carlos de Bariloche, snow came late this year, but when it finally fell, it was a skier's dream-3-ft. base. 2 in. of powder, and fresh snow at night to top it off. Last week the biggest crowds in history were strapping skis together in Buenos Aires and bracing themselves for a clattery two days on the train or six hours on a plane for their share of Christies. In Bolivia, young skiers jammed into the two lodges at the three-mile-high Chacaltaya ski area. But nowhere...
Page from Perón. To fire Urrutia with maximum dramatic effect Castro borrowed a trick from another expert demagogue, Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, who once "quit" office to provoke an outburst of public support. The news hit Havana one morning by way of 5½-in. type in Castro's mouthpiece newspaper, Revolución: FIDEL RESIGNS...
...tons of U.S. sheet-steel exports for her auto industry in the mid-19505, but the price she paid caused shudders in the industry; she has now cut her U.S. sheet imports to 100,000 tons. U.S. steel has been virtually cut out of South Africa, is slipping in Argentina, where imports from Japan and West Germany are taking over...