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This week Chamoun was in São PaulÔ, where the Avenida Paulista is dotted with the mosque-style homes of wealthy Lebanese. Next on his itinerary: Uruguay, where there are 15,000 Lebanese, and Argentina, where there...
...unconvincing; lurid rumors began to spread. Last week Cuba's leading magazine, Bohemia, printed a photograph of Arteaga. Under the picture was the deadpan caption: "The wound suffered by Monsignor Manuel Arteaga on the forehead on the night of the 12th of August in his palace on the Avenida del Puerto. Twenty stitches were necessary to close it, the task being accomplished by Dr. Anido in the operating room of the Centro Médico Quirürgico...
Some future good business for the Good Traders of Latin America shaped up : ¶ The Ford Motor Co. opened a $10 million assembly plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which renamed one of its streets Avenida Henry Ford...
...economic police, with 200 inspectors, can't keep watch over 200,000 or 300,000 shops. [But] if I had 200,000 inspectors, you would simply have to pay their salaries, and anyway, half of them would be thieves ... I myself . . . will slaughter cattle in the Avenida General Paz, and give meat away free." To get meat to markets, he threatened to "use troops to storm the cattle ranches." As for black-marketing butchers, "I will make them obey by the rifle butt...
Evita appeared to have reached a crisis in her long illness. Early last week word leaked out of the presidential residence in Olivos that she was being fed intravenously. Toward week's end she was reported slightly improved. But at the Avenida de Mayo headquarters of the sub-Secretary of Information, lights burned all night. Inside, a special watch of five reporters anxiously awaited news of any change in the First Lady's health...