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...with Frondizi at a fast clip down the stately Avenue St. Martin, he insisted that the automobiles slow down, and objected when the crowd thickened and his escorts, a mounted troop of grenadiers dressed in Napoleonic uniforms, moved their horses around his car for protection. Waving the guardsmen aside, Ike greeted the dense crowds with a grin, and got a roar of welcome in return-a remarkable salute from the usually reserved Argentine public. The subdued chant of "Peron! Peron!" was drowned out by an ovation for the U.S. President...
...same next day at Mar del Plata (a detour carefully arranged to get Ike out of tense Buenos Aires into a more easily policed area). Along the seven-mile route from the airport into the resort town, nearly a million cheering, suntanned vacationers, many wearing bathing suits, made a happy uproar and brought a mile-wide grin to Ike's face...
...President Eisenhower, visibly fatigued underneath his sun-reddened complexion, joined President Frondizi at the picturesque (and safe) resort town of Llao Llao (pronounced Zhow Zhow) in the Andes, for two days of discussion and rest. As he got ready to fly on to Santiago and Montevideo this week, Ike could almost sense the friendlier feelings his trip had created, and most Latin Americans seemed to agree with the judgment of Brazil's Kubitschek: "I am fully convinced we are now entering a new phase of understanding and cooperation with our friends and allies, the North American nation...
...farm policies, blasted Ezra Benson, cited the painful and growing surplus situation and the severe drop in farm income (which in 1959 sank no less than 16% or $2.1 billion from 1958). They warned Nixon that the Democrats would probably pass a wild cornucopia of a farm bill that Ike would have to veto. The political consequences in farm country, they said, were easy to foretell: the Democrats could then declare that the Administration was doing its best to ruin the farmer...
Journey to Understanding (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Ike in South America. Color...