Word: argentina
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Black topsoil, rolling 350 miles west and south of Buenos Aires, has nourished Argentina's agricultural past; but for its heavy-industrial future, Argentina is looking toward continent's-end Patagonia. Outwardly, Patagonia seems little more than 300,000 sq. mi. of wasteland lashed by 60-m.p.h. antarctic winds, blinded by spinning dust devils, cursed by endless drought that is relieved by only 5 in. of rain a year. Its 500,000 inhabitants earn a rugged living by running 18 million sheep and 1,500,000 goats on scrub grass...
...Buenos Aires, Nelly Rivas, 19, onetime teen-age mistress of Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan ("Just call me Pocho") Perón, announced that she and husband Carlos Ramil, an accountant at the U.S. embassy, expect a baby in April...
...Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico had run or were planning oral vaccination campaigns...
...After overthrowing dictators, Venezuela held an election in ten months, Colombia in twelve months, Argentina in 29 months...
...Last week news got out that the constitution had been quietly changed by a mere vote of the Cabinet a fortnight ago-and the new minimum fixed at 30. In the premiership, Castro can take his time about calling elections, about which his government, unlike the revolutionary juntas of Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela, has said very little...