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...Negro South Africans. u 5. "Take care" of Peron...
...opponents at once), Reshevsky earns about as much as he did as an accountant. Financial pressures caused a minor uproar at this spring's tournament in Havana. The trophy for the championship of the free world was donated, ironically enough, by Argentina's dictatorial President Juan Peron. A boastful Argentine player told U.S. competitors that it was worth $2,000. When a Cuban player died, it was suggested that the cup remain in Havana as a memorial instead of being given to the champion. Reshevsky, who was leading the tournament at the time, demurred until...
Died. General Arturo Rawson, 67, onetime provisional (for 48 hours in 1943) President of Argentina, leader (with General Pedro Ramirez) of the 1943 military revolt against fascist-minded President Ramon Castillo which unexpectedly started Juan Peron on his rise to power, part organizer of the abortive 1945 anti-Peron revolt; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
...apparently hopes to 1) drive workers back to the land, where they are badly needed. 2) cut demand for imported goods and thus ease the foreign-exchange problem. 3) force more widespread price cuts and 4) drive more marginal operators into bankruptcy. Still cheerful and cocky, Peron promised never to help dealers by relaxing his credit restrictions. Said he: "If I don't give [businessmen] loans they will have to sell merchandise-because they have it in stock-and you will pay 70 or 80 pesos for a suit instead of 500 . . . And if they go bankrupt, what...
Then the Club? More than anything else, economic difficulties are likely to keep Ibanez from establishing a new Chile to match Peron's New Argentina. The country is poor, with nothing like Argentina's rich pampas. Until next year's congressional elections, the new leader is expected to move cautiously. But trouble is due for Chile, and it may not wait. "Ibanez has promised the people a six-foot loaf of bread for a peso," said a Santiago lawyer last week. "When the people find out that he can't deliver it, he's going...