Word: peroneal
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...Juan Peron's second inauguration for a six-year presidential term should have been one of the gaudiest occasions of his career. Instead, the pampas dictator ordered all ceremonies severely curtailed, and did not even make a speech. Though economy was given as the reason for such unwonted austerity, few doubted that Peron's real reason was the failing health of his wife Evita...
...Iran's late Premier Ali Razmara sent them a special survey he had made for the Iranian army. Some countries were not so cooperative, but the gazetteers managed nonetheless. By looking through a recent propaganda tract from Argentina, they found some of the 1947 population figures that Peron had suppressed. By combing through Soviet schoolbooks they learned a thing or two about Russia. Example: the village of Tyuya-Muyun has disappeared from maps, because it has become a uranium-mining center...
...years ago, Argentina's Peronistas have been trying to wreck it. They noisily protested that I.A.P.A. was "created by the United States to dominate newspapers in the Western Hemisphere." A fortnight ago, when I.A.P.A.'s eleven-nation board met in Panama, it passed a stinging resolution condemning Peron's seizure of La Prensa, Argentina's once-great independent newspaper. The board also drafted a newsprint-sharing plan to help Latin American publications, leaving Argentina out in the cold...
Since 1933, Ultramar Petroleum, a joint subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum and the Texas Co., has been refining crude oil shipped into Argentina from Colombia and the Gulf of Mexico area, and marketing the finished products through 1,500 affiliated outlets. But when Juan Peron, who has never encouraged foreign investments in Argentina, refused to let Ultramar take out its profits in dollars, it had no incentive to improve the property. The refinery (Argentina has only 17 others) became obsolescent, and millions of dollars were needed to modernize...
...trophy in Cuba. Originally donated by Argentina, the cup had been renamed in memory of Cuban Player Juan Queseda, a contestant who died of a heart attack while the tournament was in progress. Reshevsky's truculent explanation for wanting the trophy: "Because the cup was donated by Peron for the winner, not for Cubans...