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...first, profits were enormous (up to 25% on some roads). But watered stock, low rates (fixed by the Government) and truck competition cut into dividends; for years the British owners have been dickering to sell out. Last week's ceremony in the Salon Blanco of the Casa Rosada (Government House), where Economic Czar Miguel Miranda and British Ambassador Sir Reginald Leeper (for the British shareholders) signed the bill of sale, finally ended the negotiations...
VARSITY SOCCER--Minor H--Captain Carlos A. Blanco, Robert Carswell, Curtis W. Cate, Kenneth K. Chun, Arnold S. Corrigan, William F. G. Dawson, John B. Ensign, Richard H. Forster, Richard R. Harshman, Roger B. Lazarus, Donald Louria, John A. Malcolm, Huntington Mavor, Albert W. Merck, Hugh W. Morse, David D. Ogdon, Philip C. Potter, Jr., Robert L. Purinton, Thomas B. Ragle, Manager; Francis A. Seamans, and Robert L. Smith...
...make even a Frenchman's head swim. The predominant; Colorado (Red) Party-liberal, democratic, and international-was split into four groups, each with its own presidential aspirant. The leader of the Batllista faction, suntanned ex-farmer Tomás Berreta, 70, had the best chance to win. The Blanco (White) Party had dissidents, too, but for the moment they were united behind the presidential candidacy of tall, white-thatched Luis Alberto de Herrera, 73. Herrera, "last of the South American caudillos" ("chiefs"), had for 30 years given the Blancos their nationalistic, isolationist tone. Most of Herrera's support...
...Colorados won, as they had for 80 years, Uruguay would continue its pro-U.S., pro-Hemisphere policies, its standoffish attitude toward Argentina. The Blancos would like to "unite with Perón for a political, economic and social revolution sweeping the entire American Continent." Naturally, Perón was aiding his friends. He had crimped wheat shipments so that Uruguayans ate black bread last week. The inference was obvious: vote Blanco and get white bread. To promote the idea. Perón had reportedly funneled into Uruguay 2,000 of his strong-arm boys...
...starting lineup for the Crimson was Harshman, g.; Purinton, r.f.; Merck, l.f.; Mavor, r.h.; Ogden, c.h.; Blanco, l.h.; Smith, o.r.; Morse, i.r.; Potter, c.f.; Lazarus, i.l.; Corrigan, o.l. Substitutes were: Cate, Seamans, Chun, Louris, Carswell, Dawson, Ragle, Ensign, Malcolm, and Forster...