Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Cheap Beer. In Argentina, post-Peron devaluation of the official rate of the peso has forced its value on the free market, legalized after the September revolution, from around 30 to a current of 36. Thus traded, a dollar will buy such bargains as a platter-size steak with a bottle of wine, or five pints of good Cordoba beer, or admission to seven first-run movies or a ten-mile ride in a taxi. A rent of $300 a month gets a country house with a swimming pool and big garden...
...Latin American dictatorships frequently suppress students," declared Einaudi who traveled to Argentina after the overthrow of the Peron regime. "Dictators are naturally apprehensive of the opinion of university students," he added, "since the intelligentsia has a great deal of influence in underdeveloped countries...