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...dashing, blond-mustached artilleryman who is popular with his troops, Stroessner visited the U.S. last June as the guest of the Army. One result of his revolution was postponement of this week's scheduled good-will visit to Asunción by Argentina's President Juan Peron...
...Eclaireurs upped anchor; so did St. Austell Bay. Together the ships proceeded toward Hope Bay. There, under the watchful attention of the British frigate, Admiral Olivieri went ashore to open a new Argentine military base. With the base formally established, he unveiled a bust of the late Eva Peron presented for the purpose by the taxi drivers of Buenos Aires...
...Juan Peron has been like a generous rich uncle to the members of Buenos Aires' High-School Girls' Union. Since he first started teaching them to ride motorcycles at his presidential quinta in suburban Olivos last August, he has hardly let a day pass without some kindness. Recently he gave the union the rambling old presidential palace on downtown Calle Suipacha-unused since President Ramon Castillo's overthrow in 1943-for a clubhouse. To notable girl athletes he gives a standard present: a plastic vanity case with $36 inside...
...some of their happiest times, has been drastically rebuilt since Evita's death. Crews of workers added tennis and basketball courts, a swimming pool, open-air theater and riding stables. So that the high-school girls could go to the nearby river beach without crossing a busy street, Peron had a costly tunnel dug. Last week, with most of the alterations completed, President Peron turned the quinta over to the girls for a second clubhouse. "It's too big for a lone man like me," said...
...banks, such firms as Caterpillar, International Harvester, Westinghouse, John Deere and Armco are discussing plans to put money into Argentine enterprises. Armco, Westinghouse, and McKee of Cleveland want to finish the $140 million steel mill the Argentines started at San Nicolas near Rosario. With the enthusiastic blessing of Peron, who now has to spend $500,000 a day of Argentina's dollar funds for foreign oil, representatives of U.S. oil companies have been discussing the future development of the country's underground resources. Argentine sources predict that if the oilmen decide to bring in their rigs, upwards...