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...Inter-American Press Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and ten other organizations asked Attorney General Herbert Brownell for an all-out FBI investigation of Galindez' disappearance...
...provisional President for 50 days, until ousted by a palace coup (TIME, Nov. 21) for his moderate attitude toward defeated Peronistas; after long illness; in Buenos Aires' Central Military Hospital. Soft-spoken General Lonardi spent a year (1947-48) in Washington as Argentina's representative on the Inter-American Defense Board, was forced out of the army in 1951 for allegedly plotting against Peron. Jailed for eight months in 1952 as leader of an anti-government plot, he continued to organize anti-Peron forces, and on Sept. 17, 1955 revealed himself in a dramatic radio broadcast as "leader...
Died. Rudolf S. Hecht, 70, financier, board chairman of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and of New Orleans' famed foreign-trade center, International House; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. A lifelong advocate of U.S.-Latin American relations, he engineered last year's Inter-American Investment Conference, sponsored by the city of New Orleans and TIME Inc., to persuade U.S. businessmen to invest in Latin American markets...
Circulating in Latin American capitals last week was a gloomy report labeled "For Governments Only." Subject: coffee. Gist of the document, drafted by an Inter-American Economic and Social Council committee: a growing surplus threatens to bring a disastrous slump in world coffee prices unless the governments concerned take drastic action...
...need it. At 32, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, armed with knowledge gained through the Rockefeller enterprises in Latin America, had persuaded F.D.R. to create a special "Good Neighbor" agency in the U.S. Government. Roosevelt appointed the second son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. as his Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Since then, Nelson Rockefeller has served (without pay) under three U.S. Presidents as one of the hardest-working officials in Washington. Last week the White House announced that he is bowing...