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Peru (pop. 9.500,000). Well-intentioned President Manuel Odria long ago promised to run off a free election next June. At first sullenly doubtful, Peruvians finally decided that he meant what he said, began campaigning with such antigovernmental vigor that Odria's police were goaded unwisely into shooting up a political meeting in Arequipa last December. The result was a surprisingly loud outcry for a completely unfettered election. It was under this banner that Brigadier General Marcial Merino Pereyra rebelled last week in Iquitos (see below...
Soon after sunup the rest of the garrison was standing at attention in the treelined Plaza de Armas. Brigadier General Marcial Merino Pereyra, their commander, read off a manifesto explaining to his men why he had led them into rebellion against Strongman Manuel Odria. They would, he promised, "open the front door for democracy in Peru, and guarantee absolutely free elections." Townspeople gawked, then drifted off to work...
...announcement from S.E.U. headquarters : the elections were off. To back up its decision, the S.E.U. called in a squad of blue-shirted bullyboys from the Falange's Centuria de la Guardia de Franco (Centurions of Franco's Guard). When indignant students tried to march on Law Dean Manuel Torres López' office, Falange sticks and clubs swung. The centurions were chased from the law school. Students tore down the bulletin-board notice and destroyed the Falangist arrows above a commemorative plaque to student war dead...
Study in Currency. In Tucson, Ariz., Manuel Celaya was booked for drunkenness after he called police to report that somebody had robbed him of "three four-dollar bills and four three-dollar bills...
...Manuel into operation, the Government gave Magma a strong helping hand: a $94 million loan from the RFC, fast tax write-offs on plant and railroad, and a price prop at 24? a Ib. With copper now selling at 43? a Ib., Magma's rough-and-ready President Wesley P. Goss had plenty of reason to fire up San Manuel ahead of schedule. Says he: "When you have more than $100 million tied up, you are interested in getting into production as quickly as possible and getting some of those dollars back...