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...death certificate for tyrants" is the phrase that President Pedro Aramburu uses to describe the constitutional changes -largely limitations on executive power-that he favors. Last week General Aramburu signed a decree summoning Argentines to an election July 28 to pick delegates for the Constituent Assembly that will write the changes...
...Pedro Infante was dead. Editors all over Mexico broke the news last week with inch-high type. Radio and television stations cleared the air for the story. For in the eyes of his Spanish-speaking movie fans throughout the world, Infante, 39, was all stars in one-a Valentino who could croon...
...death. Shortly after the dictator's downfall, he was appointed as Argentine ambassador to Nicaragua at a time when Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza had publicly proclaimed that Perón would be welcome in Managua. Toranzo arranged a private talk between Tacho and Argentine President Pedro Aramburu; three days later Perón left Tacho's palace. Toranzo's big job in Caracas is to try to get Peron tossed out of Venezuela - and out of the hemisphere...
...Died. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sáenz, 76, terrible-tempered, medieval-minded Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seville, who damned and damped down the gay traditional dances of his fun-loving people, banned their movies, shuttered their nightclubs; of a kidney ailment; in Madrid. His denunciation of Protestantism, and even of Franco's limited religious tolerance ("It causes one real pain to see the tolerance shown toward non-Catholic sects . . .") made him almost as unpopular with many of his fellow Catholics as with Protestants, eventually (1955) caused his diocesan duties to be shifted by the Vatican, in consultation with...
President Pedro Aramburu. who took power by force but refuses to be a dictator, coaxed and head-knocked his Cabinet past a double crisis last week, and sailed ahead with his plan to hold democratic elections for a successor...