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...anxieties. Because he is unexcitable and firm, he has not only survived for 18 months but has also turned his nation around and faced it toward political and economic revival. Even more notably, he has made an articulate, reiterated, unequivocal promise to liquidate his own regime as well as Peron's, and give the government back to elected civilians...
...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...
...drivers. Maserati, fortunately, has the two best men in the business: Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio and England's Stirling Moss. At 46, Fangio, who got his start as a Buenos Aires bus driver, is a four-time world champion. Under the benevolent sponsorship of Dictator Juan Peron he parlayed his home-town popularity into a wealthy G.M. distributorship in Buenos Aires. He has continued to do well as a driver abroad. At the wheel of a racing car he is an artist. His fine mechanic's ear is attuned to the engine's telltale throb...
Died. John Francis Griffiths, 57, onetime (1941-46) cultural attache to the U.S. embassy at Buenos Aires, who in 1948 was accused by Dictator Juan D. Peron, of financing an assassination plot against Peron and his wife Eva, was later cleared by Peron in a general amnesty (1953); of leukemia; in Buenos Aires...
That there would be a rebellion against Argentina's military government was an open secret, and it was awaited with grim relish by the ardent young officers who fought in last September's revolution to bring down Dictator Juan Peron. They and their leader and hero, Admiral Isaac Rojas, itched to inflict a lesson in hot lead on the endlessly plotting Peronista party chiefs, labor leaders and pro-Perón officers cashiered by the revolutionary government. As luck would have it, when the plot popped this week, hard-boiled Vice President Rojas was in top command...