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...Brazil and Argentina, potential oil exporters that are now importers, emotional nationalism hinders the search for oil by barring foreign capital from participation. Last week the government oil monopolies in both countries made news, but it was news of hopes and plans, not of discoveries and output. Argentina's President Pedro Aramburu told a gathering of representatives from oil-producing provinces that the national oil agency, YPF, had been put on a new autonomous status so that it could get on with its work. ''The Argentine future in petroleum is extraordinary." said Aramburu, predicting self-sufficiency...
...arsenic used in insecticides, fruit sprays, and occurring naturally in the drinking water of some areas (in Argentina 150 cases of cancer have been attributed to the water supply...
...landed in Caracas, he was cheered by some 100 of these supporters with a fervor reminiscent of his old days in power. First to step up and embrace the fading strongman: General Raúl Tanco, one of the leaders of a June revolt against Argentina's provisional government...
CHARGE ACCOUNTS AT SEA are being tried aboard Moore-McCormack Lines luxury ships Argentina and Brazil. First-class passengers may charge up to $2,000 in shipboard tips, services and purchases (including bar tabs), pay later...
Guests Without Hosts. Brazil's Jusce-lino Kubitschek, with Uruguay's Alberto Zubiria a guest in his plane, had planned to be back in Rio for a state visit by Argentina's Pedro Aramburu, but engine trouble delayed them in Peru, and bad weather stalled them in Santiago, Chile. Chile's Carlos Ibanez, however, was not on hand to greet them; on his way home the Chilean President had 1) run across Ecuador's Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra at the Guayaquil airport and dawdled over a glass of champagne, and 2) landed at Lima...