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...Paraguayan capital of Asunción, Juan Perón made the best of his second week of exile, playing with a pet anteater and smilingly shopping for a motorscooter, but the humiliations piled...
Juan Perón, who called himself Argentina's "No. 1 Worker,'' turned out on his downfall to have been merely the country's fastest worker. Evidence left behind after his hasty flight to asylum on a dinky Paraguayan gunboat reduced the 60-year-old dictator to a lonely eccentric and tawdry libertine who liked his girls young, his gadgets golden, and his plunder plentiful. Almost the first witness that the new regime's investigators turned up was a sun-ripened lass named Nelida ("Nelly") Rivas, 16, who apparently had been...
...panic tunnel was never used. When his bubble broke, Perón took the easy way out to a safe and mobile hideout under a foreign flag on the Paraguayan gunboat. He, spent all last week there, while Argentina prodded Paraguay to guarantee that it would not let Perón mount a counterrevolution from Paraguay, which is separated only by rivers from Argentine soil. This week, apparently satisfied, Argentina let its busted boss fly off to exile...
...Fatherland, cheering the man who overthrew him. Rebel hotspurs talked of seizing the fallen strongman and bringing him to trial. But the deep-rooted Latin American tradition of political asylum prevailed, and Juan Perón. gone with the winter, got a safe-conduct for a boat trip into Paraguayan exile...
...profits, or the owner may move in and run it himself. After the trees mature (in four years), Johnson says, each farm should gross at least $40,000 a year, with a fat one-half of the take as profit. The notion of owning a profitable Paraguayan plantation has proved irresistibly appealing to Wall Street bankers, Brazilian businessmen, even staid European capitalists. A typical sale, as related by Johnson...