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Unlikely Leader. Upheavals are not rare in Latin America, but the time and place of this one caught almost everyone by surprise. It took place in what is perhaps the most economically advanced nation on the continent-a rich land of spreading pampas, beef and grain, in which no Gaucho or laborer needs to go hungry. It is a land whose 20 million people, mostly of European immigrant descent, consider themselves infinitely superior to the citizens of neighboring Latin countries. It is urban and modern: one-third of the nation live within the capital city of Buenos Aires, a Parisian...
...coming together of catastrophic events brought Per&243;n's downfall. Evita died of cancer.* In his bereavement, Per&243;n found solace in teen-age girls. The wheat, meat and money gave out. Per&243;n had made it so unprofitable to raise cattle and grain that bread and beef were in short supply. He dickered desperately for a $125 million loan from the U.S., violated the nationalism that he himself had urged by trying to swing a deal with Standard Oil of California to exploit Argentine...
...less food last year than in 1958 and is lagging so far behind Khrushchev's ambitious targets that it "seriously threatens" the entire seven-year plan. Russians are in no danger of starvation and in fact are better fed than in Stalin's day. But production of grain, sugar beets, vegetables and butter has remained level, and the cities are plagued by recurrent shortages of meat and milk. The explanation is simple. Said Khrushchev: "The fact is that we just don't have enough...
...incentives" (i.e., pay for peasants). Burying his seven-year-old decentralization program, Khrushchev put responsibility for agriculture on a vast central administration. With all the fervor of his old crusade for corn, he even plugged a brand-new party-line panacea: abandonment of Stalin's system of sowing grain fields to grass every few years.* Instead of allowing almost half the valuable land to lie fallow, Khrushchev decreed that farmers henceforth will rotate grain with peas, beans, sugar beets and other crops...
...House of Commons, Diefenbaker was asked for his reaction to Secretary of State Dean Rusk's hope that other countries would join the OAS in its quarantine of Castro. Enunciating the principle on which Canada not only trades with Cuba but last year concluded a whopping $425.6 million grain deal with Red China, Diefenbaker replied coldly: "The decision as to the course Canada shall take should be made by Canada on the basis of policies which she believes are appropriate to Canada...