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Dictator Juan Perón let Patagonian smuggling flourish from 1945 to 1953. In July 1956 President Pedro Aramburu revived the free zone with the old, futile hope that it could make an eroded wasteland blossom. Instead, refrigerators, watches, lingerie, television sets and bubble gum began moving across the border. Wooden handles stamped "made south of parallel 42" were slapped into imported shovels, wooden bases with the same markings were attached to Japanese sewing machines, and all the loot found its way north to market. Most lucrative item of all was the automobile, legally subject to duties of six times...
...came an era of reckless barnstorming and adventuring. Editor Jensen has unaccountably omitted the most vivid snapshot of that era, William Faulkner's Death Drag. But he has snagged some other good things: Anne Lindbergh reminisces about a weird Alaskan flight; Antoine de Saint-Exupery describes a Patagonian cyclone; and James Thurber, in his wonderful story, The Greatest Man in the World, draws a satiric profile of Pal Smurch, the cocky little urchin who flew nonstop around the world-the adulation went to his head so badly that he had to be pushed out the window...
Mutual Protection. Other solitary mariners have followed in Slocum's track since then,* but none ever quite matched Slocum's achievement or his natural bent for storytelling: how he was chased by Moroccan pirates, rode out a tidal wave off the Patagonian coast, spent weeks beating his way through the Strait of Magellan and fighting off marauding Tierra del Fuego Indians. One night, glassy-eyed from lack of sleep and unable to stand watch any longer, he went below for rest-after sprinkling the deck with carpet tacks that had been brought along for just such an emergency...
Sunday, Boston in the dimout, the Patagonian lakes, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery. It has whimsy and charm, but it represents a hybrid culture which Victoria Ocampo has not shed...
Cautiously, like a colony of Patagonian crabs, they began to sidle ahead sideways. When Ortiz resigned, they joined his supporters in voting to refuse his resignation, thereby clearing his honor of any stain. At the same time they gained the cooperation of the Socialists in insisting that President Ortiz revise his Cabinet, last week forced his ministers to hand in their portfolios. By week's end their crablike progress had brought them to their goal. Ortiz handed over to Castillo authority to select a new Cabinet, which he promptly filled with six conservatives and only one nonconservative, a doff...