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Gaucho Socialism. The issue that brought the Nationals to power over the Colorados was the one that had for so long kept the Colorados in power: the welfare state. Conceived by Colorado Leader José Batlle y Ordóñez, twice Uruguay's President (1903-07; 1911-15), Gaucho socialism at first transformed cattle-and sheep-growing Uruguay into a Latin American Utopia, Uruguayans into devoted followers of the Colorados. They got pensions (usually starting at 50) and the eight-hour day 20 years before the U.S. did. They got a vast network of government industries: insurance...
...barged into the larger of the two houses gun in hand, ready for anything. Not even Ibanez was prepared for what he saw. Flanked by a Red star bearing the hammer and sickle, a tall, mustachioed teacher was holding class for some two dozen adult students. Ibanñez had stumbled onto the "Aurora" college-an international center for training Communist propagandists...
...Lawyer Too." By the time Crime Chief Ibañez returned to headquarters with his prisoners, two of Argentina's top Commie lawyers, Julio Viaggio and Rodolfo Alfaro, were waiting with writs of habeas corpus. "Aha, I can be a lawyer too," snapped the chief. Where was Professor Ferrari's boardinghouse permit? "This is against municipal law." With that, Ibañez closed Stella Maris, charged its tenants with illicit operations...
...church for $41,000, a warehouse for as little as 50? per sq. ft. Clients, including real-estate developers in Texas and a restaurant chain in Florida, have found them not only cheap but handsome. In his just completed lagoon restaurant (opposite), done with Architect Joaquin Alvarez Ordoñez, Candela uses undulating folds of great elegance. For his Santa Fe bandstand, done with Architect Mario Pani, he combined six hyperbolic paraboloids to form a 40-ft. cantilever of shelter. Candela has designed another bandstand that will soar...
Brigadier General Luis Ordóñez delayed his abductors 20 minutes with a tongue-lashing but was forced to go along anyway. The capture of tough Major General Deogracias Fonseca was noisy; a guard managed to scream: "Save yourself, General! They've come to kill you!" Struggling, Fonseca was hauled off bodily to his pickup truck...