Word: frondizi
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...frantic bidding, a Fiat went for $7,000, a Ford station wagon for $15,000, a Buick for $23,000, a Cadillac for an incredible $50,000. When the ten-day auction ended, 617 cars had been sold, about $10 million had changed hands, and the government of Arturo Frondizi had cleaned up a tidy $7,500,000 in profits...
...what they wanted: the nouveaux riches got their flashy new status symbols, businessmen bought that company car and a tax write-off at the same time, and the government paid for its independence celebration. The opposition got something, too: an eight-cylinder issue to be used in twitting Arturo Frondizi's government for an austerity program that obliges the workers to tighten their belts, but permits the rich to blow millions on new cars...
Argentina. President Arturo Frondizi manages to keep on rebuilding the Perónwrecked economy and weather crisis after crisis, largely because the pressure from all sides-capitalists. Communists, militarists, trade unionists, Peronistas-is so strong that he is prevented from falling, like a man caught in a subway crush...
...assistance in his propaganda war against "Yankee imperialism." In Washington last year, President López Mateos called the Cuban revolution nationalist nonCommunist. Eight months later, when Cuba's touring puppet President turned up in Mexico after having been rebuffed en route by Argentina's President Frondizi and Venezuela's Betancourt, López Mateos went down to the airport, gave him a warm abrazo and a warm word: "We are linked to Cuba by similar aspirations for justice." At the Organization of American States' San José meeting last August, Mexico's Foreign Minister...
...same time Brazil's Foreign Minister Horacio Lafer read Roa's speech and also stiffened. Roa had called him "the run-see-and-tell" of the U.S. State Department. That night, Brazil's President Kubitschek phoned Argentina's Frondizi. Next day envoys from both nations marched stiffly into the Cuban Foreign Office with protests. Said Brazil's ambassador: "My government rejects this offense against national dignity." Said the Argentine note: "The insulting phrases set an imprudent precedent...