Word: cordoba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around the bandstand, munched the leaves and pink buds off the scrubby palo borracho trees that line La Rioja's streets. They followed housewives from the marketplace and sometimes quietly stole vegetables from their baskets. At newsstands they even snagged and ate the latest edition of the daily Cordoba. As the pack prospered and multiplied on such fare, fines were imposed on loose burros and a squad of "burreros" was formed to round them up. The owners just waited and eventually bought back their animals at city auction for purely nominal prices. Public opinion would not stand for destroying...
Militarily, the next try, just three months later, was even less brilliant. The rebels under General Eduardo Lonardi took inland Cordoba, but General Aramburu, attempting to subvert the garrison at Curuzu Cuatia, had to get out afoot when Perón poured reinforcements against him. After three days of fighting, Perón's general staff in Buenos Aires correctly concluded that it could contain the uprising-and it probably would have, except for a rebel admiral named Isaac Rojas, who had commanded the uprising at a naval base, was now heading for the capital in the captured cruiser...
...official rate of the peso has forced its value on the free market, legalized after the September revolution, from around 30 to a current of 36. Thus traded, a dollar will buy such bargains as a platter-size steak with a bottle of wine, or five pints of good Cordoba beer, or admission to seven first-run movies or a ten-mile ride in a taxi. A rent of $300 a month gets a country house with a swimming pool and big garden...
...prayed for "most copious blessings from Heaven" on the President. But last year the opposition-hating strongman began worrying about clerical influence in organizations of workers, professionals and students, and even more about what looked like the beginnings of a Catholic political party in the devout inland province of Cordoba. Last October the Peron government launched an on-and-off feud with the church. Since then the government has cut its subsidies to church schools to a trickle, dismissed dozens of priests from posts as teachers and chaplains, fired scores of government officials who belonged to laymen's associations...
Almost as ingenious was an idea from Industrialist Henry Kaiser. At Cordoba, 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, he looked over the state-owned plant that produces cars, tractors, motorcycles, jet planes, light planes, gliders, parachutes, trucks and plastic boats. Kaiser's offer was to put $25 million into an assembly line for the state plant and to supply the know-how for building Kaiser and Willys cars. Until the factory could supply the market, Kaiser proposed to export his U.S.-made cars to Argentina. Perón signed an "agreement in principle" for the deal...