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Guatemala City's workers and shopkeepers applauded politely, and the hundreds of straw-hat peasants trucked into the capital stood passively. The country's new military strongman was addressing them. On a balcony of the avocado green national palace, Army Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, explained what was in store for the country following his overthrow of President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. He began by proclaiming Decree Law No. 1: subject-labor reform. Peralta promised equal pay for both Indians and whites, an eight-hour day and a 48-hour week, paid vacations, maternity leave, the right of farm...
...with an announcement for Guatemala's 3,800,000 people. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, 67, the cagy old soldier who had only a year to go before completing his elected six-year term of office, had been overthrown. In command of a military junta was Defense Minister Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, who was assuming control for the "good of the nation...
...Lost Dutchman legend begins with Don Miguel Peralta. whose family worked the mine in the in the mid-1800s. According to one version of the story, Don Miguel's pack train of 50 mules and 100 men was attacked and massacred by a band of Apaches, who reburied the treasure to please the thunder god. But one man escaped the ambush, sold a map of the mine to two gringos...
...operation for removal of a brain blood clot; in Albuquerque. A "best-dressed" society glamour girl of the '20s. Millicent made an unhappy career of marrying in haste, repenting in opulent leisure. Her husbands: 1) penniless Austrian Count Ludwig Constantin Salm (1924-27), 2) dashing Argentine Socialite Arturo Peralta Ramos (1927-35), 3) Manhattan Broker Ronald B. Balcom (1936-41). In later years, she Iived alone on a small New Mexican ranch in the shadow of a sacred Taos Indian mountain, wore blue jeans, sadly observed: "Dancing partners aren't what they used...
This pronouncement represents the opening gambit i the grandiose scheme of the Peronistas to increase the population of Argentine in the next fifty years to 100,000,000 people. An amateur ethnologist of the Alfred Rosenberg variety, Peralta plays the same role of racial philosopher i the Peron cabinet as did Rosenberg in the Nazi regime. While sharing Rosenberg's views on Aryans and Jews, he nevertheless believes that Europe is through, that the Continent is "doomed never to return from its slump back into the Middle Ages." The German Gotter-dammerung is complete, now it is the Argentine which...