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Many Italians drifted into politics. Since the social revolution triggered by Dictator Juan Perón (who was of Italian ancestry), Argentina's presidential palace has been home to a Lonardi, Frondizi, Guido, and now to Dr. Arturo Illia-all of them of Italian descent. Today, 1,200,000 of Argentina's 21 million people are Italian-born, and another 7,000,000 have Italian blood in their veins...
Almost unnoticed amid the coups and chaos around the hemisphere, one country last week quietly went from military control back into the hands of a constitutional President. In Buenos Aires' Chamber of Deputies, courtly, white-haired Dr. Arturo Umberto Illia, 63, took the oath of office as Argentina's 29th President, ending 18 months of military-dominated government that began with the overthrow of President Arturo Frondizi...
...simple little welcome-home party for Argentina's President-elect Arturo Umberto Illia, 63. So 18,000 of the folks in Cruz del Eje (pop. 22,000) dropped over to the athletic stadium to tie on the feedbag. Four hours later, when Illia and friends pushed back from the 600 long tables, they had done quite a bit of conspicuous consuming: 25,000 meat pie appetizers, 40 whole roasted calves, 40 chickens, 150 lambs, 8,800 loaves of bread and numberless pounds of fresh fruit, 22,000 bottles of soda pop, 600 bottles of beer and 11,000 bottles...
...starring Alec Guinness, is based on Dylan Thomas' visits to America (Jan. 21). And Hugh Leonard's Stephen D., an adaptation-successful in London-of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, will open in late autumn. Bertolt Brecht's Arturo Ui, which parodies the rise of Hitler, stars Christopher Plummer (Nov. 4). The ANTA-Washington Square Theater, preparing to become the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, will present Arthur Miller's new play After the Fall, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Jason Robards Jr. (Jan. 23). The ANTA...
Last week the subject was very much in the limelight as Y.P.F. signed a new contract with Oklahoma's Kerr McGee Oil to drill an additional 350 wells. Two days later, Argentina's electoral college chose a new President, Arturo Illia, who has vowed to annul all the oil contracts...