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...when he returned from his 1958 trip. The Assistant Secretary was saved by the intervention of 'his longtime friend Milton Eisenhower, but now Dwight Eisenhower is alarmed at the setbacks the U.S. has suffered in Latin America. One recent influence on Ike is Peru's conservative Premier Pedro Beltran, a visitor to the White House last month, who argues that the U.S. should help meet some of Latin America's social needs-though he agrees that Latin Americans must do more for themselves. The U.S. is preparing to grant Peru $25 million in loans for housing...
Yale University Pedro Gerardo Beltran, publisher of Lima's La Prensa, Finance Minister and Prime Minister of Peru. . .LL.D. Franklin Clark Fry, president, United Lutheran Church of America...
...INFANT WITH THE GLOBE (240 pp.) -Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, translated by Robert Graves-Yoseloff...
...Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, who lived from 1833 to 1891, was a member of a penniless aristocratic family and, in succession, a crusading young liberal editor and atheist, an unsuccessful playwright, a successful politician and. toward the end of his life, a conservative, well-to-do author and defender of the faith. The information is necessary because. Graves believes, Alarcon wrote The Infant with the Globe as a bantering, ironic commentary on his own youth...
...preferences Prado acquiesced, and government presses cranked out endless paper sols to pay for the expansion. He was soon in deep economic trouble and under fire from Publisher Beltrán. Prado's answer was direct and logical: in a phone conversation that began, "Look here, Pedro," he turned his troubles over to Beltr...