Word: castillos
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...charade with music," it assembles a fashionable group for a ball at a chateau where not only the guests, but their words, their wit, their desires, their very frustrations are expected to dance. With its adroit Christopher Fry translation, evocative Poulenc music, elegant Dufy curtain scrawls, charming 1912 Castillo costumes, Ring Round the Moon comes in the most inviting of envelopes-which proves a little hard on the letter inside...
...Colonels' Revolution that overturned the corrupt, dictatorial regime of President Ramón Castillo, General Arturo Rawson had been one of the few devotees of democracy. For three days, five years ago, he had been President of Argentina. Rawson had passed quickly into history, a black-suited figure destined to spend his days amid the Jockey Club's splendors, while one of the obscure figures of the revolution, a man named Juan Domingo Perón, made the country over...
...Order. "In some respects Argentina has changed little since the revolution. The same charges of graft and corruption that had been leveled at Castillo's government are now directed by the opposition toward the Perón administration. Electoral processes, while superficially normal, still give little chance to any but the party in power. But the hitherto neglected working classes have been forged into a political weapon that relieves the President of his sole reliance on the army as a means of staying in office. Higher wages have been showered on them (up 150% since 1943); massed descamisados...
...Castillo's almost continuous state of siege Argentines have exchanged a pseudo-legal and semi-respectable repression that is, if anything, more severe. University students and professors with political ideas are no longer pushed around by police; all troublesome ones have been removed, and a new law permits political opinion and activity-so long as it is in favor of the regime. Newspapers which thundered against Castillo's decrees have with but one exception been silenced by Perón's subsidies and newsprint restrictions ; and even great La Prensa is visibly weakening. Recently the government decreed...
Divorced. (Francis) Xavier Cugat, 46, Spanish-born bandleader who made the U.S. rumba-constious; by Carmen Castillo Cugat, 40, aunt of Actress Margo; after 17 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...