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...people would like to have A good original art in their homes, but few can afford it. A Montevideo-born artist named Antonio Frasconi has found a personal solution to the problem: he does woodcuts. Frasconi, today the U.S.'s foremost woodcut artist, makes 10 or 15 prints of a cut, sells them for $25 to $125 each. Such prices have brought him a far wider public than most painters can boast. This week, 34 of Frasconi's best woodcuts start a year-long tour of U.S. museums, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. The three prints opposite reflect...
...forgot the old trader he had once hailed as "a man with a magic wand that turns everything to gold." Last December, several months after Evita's death, Miranda flew to Buenos Aires for a conference with the chief. Recently, as Miranda continued to shuttle back & forth between Montevideo and Buenos Aires, Argentines heard that he was about to be recalled to boss Perón's second five-year plan. But Miranda's earthly bargaining was almost over. Last week, at 61, he died of a heart attack in Montevideo...
...granted that we could forget about South America for a time and then go back and find everything the same as it was before." Brazilians, who had been saying exactly this for years, were delighted. Said onetime Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha: "We are beginning a new era." Headlined Montevideo's El Pais; FOSTER DULLES HITS BULLSEYE. Bogotá's El Tiempo, one of Latin America's clearest democratic voices, commented: "What is heartening is the insistence on ending the policy of indifference...
Aristotle Socrates Onassis is a Greek-born Argentine who water-skis in the best international circles and includes among his friends Prince Rainier III, Pooh-Bah of the tiny principality of Monaco and its famed Monte Carlo Casino. At 47, Onassis has homes in Paris, New York, Montevideo and Antibes, owns or controls a fleet of 91 tankers, freighters and whaling ships worth an estimated $300 million, and has a pretty 23-year-old wife. But he didn't get all this by breaking the bank at Monte Carlo-quite the opposite. Last week "Ari" Onassis...
...nearly 30 shipping companies* under five different flags, Onassis already has headquarters in Montevideo, branch offices in Paris, London, New York, Hamburg and Panama. But since much of his tanker business is bringing oil from the Middle East through the Mediterranean to Northern Europe, he thought he should have offices near the Mediterranean ports of Marseille and Genoa, where many of his ships are repaired. To Onassis, some empty buildings he had seen on a visit to Monaco looked ideal. A year ago, he approached Monaco's Societe des Bains de Mer et Cercle des Strangers (Sea Bathing Society...