Word: cordoba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the desacato law took some Argentines in the inland city of Cordoba far beyond the point of absurdity. Traffic Commissioner Antonio J. Lucco wrote an appeals court .judge a letter informing him that he was not entitled to the particular official license plate he was using on his car. Two days later, the court ordered Lucco arrested for desacato. Sentence: four days in jail. Offense: using "Esteemed Sir" as the salutation of the letter instead of "Your Excellency...
...word from Argentina's presidential palace is that Juan Perón has lately been experiencing premonitions of violent death. He has taken to carrying a pistol on the seat beside him when he goes out in a car. When he journeyed to Cordoba last month, elaborate safety precautions were taken. The official announcement said he would go by plane. But the presidential train was made ready at Buenos Aires' Retiro station, and word quickly leaked out that he was really going by rail. Then, with any would-be assassins doubly confused, he departed by yacht...
...bullfight time, his mouth and his spirit are ash-dry. He watches young Tano Ruiz work deftly with the first bull, hears the crowd shouting in approval. Let Tano thrill them. He, Pacote, will "coast all the way," retire to a good safe life of raising bulls in Cordoba. His own first bull is a fiasco. Pacote trips on his cape before making a single pass. As he staggers to his feet, the bull deals him a glancing blow that knocks him down and out. As the doctor works feverishly to bring him to, Tano, more than ever the crowd...
...enough, but were totally perplexed by President Perón's continuing strange behavior. With less than two weeks till election day, he had not yet launched his campaign, made a speech or even stirred from the capital. Twice he postponed scheduled electioneering tours into Santa Fe and Cordoba provinces. Not a single poster was to be seen anywhere advertising his ticket...
...Buenos Aires' staunchly independent newspapers La Prensa and La Nation into court on libel charges. Other papers were also punished for opposition to his regime. Salta's outspoken El In-transigente found its newsprint supply cut off and so did Buenos Aires' tabloid Clarin. In Cordoba, inspectors found the printing plant of the firmly anti-Peronista Jesuit daily Los Principios "insanitary," and peremptorily padlocked it. This week Los Principios and Clarin had been allowed to resume publication, but a congressional committee closed the Communist daily La Hora, charging it with "anti-Argentine activities...