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Under bright, balmy skies the holiday-minded crowds gathered early along the broad Avenida San Martin. They packed the balconies of apartment houses, perched on tree branches and jammed the temporary bleachers. Then President Pedro Aramburu, wearing his blue-and-white sash of office, arrived from the National Cathedral, climbed the steps of the reviewing stand, saluted during the national anthem, and the parade began...
Campaign posters plastered the stately palms on Lima's Avenida Arequipa, crusted the city's statues, napped from every wall. Neon lights blinked political slogans, and the bellow of the sound truck was heard in the land. In Peru this week, the eight-year rule of a military strongman was coming to a surprising climax in a wide-open presidential election...
Common Style. Most modern Latin American architecture, whether along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, Caracas' Avenida Bolivar or São Paulo's Avenida Anhangabaú, has a distinctive look. Almost all Latin American architects use combinations of louvers, grills, projecting concrete slabs and movable screens to control the dazzling sunshine; they share a lavish liking for color, usually dramatically set off against sparkling white. There is a dearth of structural steel and timber, so the designers have almost universally turned to reinforced concrete. It is a building medium that can easily become clumsy and heavy, but the Latin Americans...
...placid, two-ton rhinoceros escaped briefly from a circus in Rio one evening last week, jamming traffic on busy Avenida Atlantica. Amid the tangle of stalled automobiles, the word darted around as erratically as a horsefly in a stable: "O Golpe! The coup!" In jittery Rio, something as commonplace as a traffic snarl could touch off rumors that the army was taking over, and the exclamation Golpe! really meant "This...
Whether accurate or not, for a few tense days last week the sensational disclosures threatened to topple autocratic old (71) Getulio Vargas from power. Opposition Deputies demanded that Vargas resign. One morning a mob of 2,000 swarmed up the Avenida Rio Branco, shouting: "Down with Vargas," tore down Luthero's campaign posters and overturned and set fire to a campaign car bearing pro-Vargas slogans...