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...anti-Perón soldier-engineer who has spent the bulk of his career in the Argentine army's industrial branch-a curiously unmilitary pet project of Perón's that still operates such fruitful enterprises as steel plants, chemical complexes, vehicle-assembly plants and motor-scooter factories. For a front man to give a semblance of legality, the military sounded out Senate President (pro tern) José Maria Guido, 52, a small-town lawyer and a member of Frondizi's Intransigent Radical Party, whose ambitions did not include the President's overthrow. Guido said...
With two boats-a 55-ft. motor cruiser and a 23-ft. inboard runabout-he keeps busy on the water for three or four hours...
...working class carry recipes for wiener schnitzel and French dressing, discuss the Scandinavian look in furniture, and French perfumes. One family in four has a refrigerator, compared to one in eight only a year ago. Status is measured in terms of latex-backed rugs, papered ceilings and motor scooters. One housewife told a reporter last week: "I do very nicely now. I don't want for nothing any more. It's not like the old days...
...more eyes (electrical light sensors ) than any spider. When it went into orbit, some of the eyes searched for the sun. and nitrogen discharged from a bottle in the drum moved the drum's axis until it was perpendicular to the sun's direction. Next, a motor on the central shaft started turning the sail so that its solar cells pointed steadily...
...ears with plugs, but it was no use. He finally leased a small cottage to which he and his wife retreated when they anticipated a busy night on the runway. A representative of the Airline Pilots Association further aggravated his fears with the admission that "in event of motor failure on takeoff, pilots would have no recourse but to plow into my house." In 1953 Griggs filed suit against the airport. In 1956 he sold his house and five acres to the St. Philip's Episcopal Church (whose congregation has since been bothered only a few times on Sunday...