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...Ambassador Bruce and U.S. Counselor Guy Ray met with Perón and discussed the banning of TIME. No decision was reached. A week later Johnson and Peron had a long talk about "attacks" on Señora Perón, etc., and the President promised to take up the ban with his minister in charge of customs. He said that it would take some time to straighten things...
Last week the pitted, single-lane oi. road to Pocatello bustled with more traffic than Arco had seen for years. Speculators from as far away as Boise bid for lots that had long lain unsold at $10. "We don't want to gouge anyone," protested Realtor Ora Jones. But a lot opposite the Dee, which is the town's only hotel, jumped from $2,000 to $18,000. Said one Pocatellan: "The jackrabbits up there have 'For Sale' signs over their holes...
...next day, Peronistas were cockier than ever. At the army's vast Campo de Mayo base, the President and his blonde wife were ostentatiously received by their recent critic, Defense Secretary José Humberto Sosa Molina. In a speech dripping with consideration for Señora Perón, Sosa Molina said: "The significance of her presence among us as a special guest of honor is nothing but a stout denial of rumors that picture the army as opposing...
Lockout. What, Argentines wondered, had become of la Señora's reported vendetta with the Defense Secretary? What about the army's warnings to the President? The Peróns had obviously come to terms with the military brass. But what were the terms? Even the best-informed porteños did not know. But there were some guesses. Among the best: 1) Evita would gradually retire from public life; and 2) Perón would follow a more hard-boiled attitude toward labor...
Unwanted Task. Just how long this new parade of personal triumphs would continue depended on whether Perón could lick Argentina's still unsolved economic crisis. His army critics seemed perfectly willing to leave that task to him for the present. Meanwhile, the high-flying Señora was reported setting her sights to bring down the boss of the army, whose criticisms had caused her so much recent embarrassment. When this news was conveyed to Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina, at his big army base outside the capital, the general's comment was blunt...