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...much fun as the scenery is the train itself. Visitors can stand alongside the engineer as he operates the brakes and the burner on the steep grades along the way. For the less daring there are two shorter rides, El Maiten-Vuelta al Rio and Esquel-Nahuel Pan, each 31 miles long. You can avoid cancellations due to snow by booking Argentine spring and summer trips--when it's fall and winter in the U.S. (El Maiten train station: 011-54-2945-49-5190). --By Uki Goni
...fission." Instead, "contrary to what was done in foreign experiments, Argentine technicians worked on the basis of thermonuclear reactions, which are identical with those whereby the sun releases atomic energy." The successful experiment had been conducted at the government atomic plant on Huemul Island, in the Andean lake of Nahuel Huapi, some 900 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. It required neither uranium nor plutonium. "With the seriousness and veracity which is my custom," Perón assured his people that his cut-rate atomic energy would be used "solely for power plants, smelters and other industrial establishments...
Died. Carlos Ortiz Basualdo, 37, Argentine cattle tycoon; husband of Leonora Hughes, onetime Long Island telephone operator who became the dancing partner of the late, famed Maurice Mouvet; by drowning, when his speedboat overturned in Lake Nahuel Huapi in the Southern Argentine Andes...
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