Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, March 18--President Arturo Frondizi's party conceded victory tonight to Communist-backed followers of exiled ex-dictator Juan D. Peron in congressional and provincial elections...
...massive wave of pro-Peron ballots struck a shattering blow at the Frondizi government and indirectly at President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress aid to Latin America...
...notion that obesity is due to weak will power is particularly ironic in view of recent political history," Mayer added. "This is the age of the Obese Dictator--Khrushchev, Peron, Tito, Stalin, and Castro are cases in point." He cited Winston Churchill as another example of a willful fat man. "It is amusing," he concluded, "that The Vallant Years, a current TV series on Churchill, is being sponsored by Metrecal...
...recognize Red China, and withdraws an embassy from Cuba, because it does not approve the routes these governments followed in gaining power. The State Department speaks of diplomatic liaisons as Seals of Approval granted only to well-behaved foreigners. Yet Chiang and Franco, and until recently Batista, Rhee, and Peron, gobble up dollars and throw their oppositions into jail without trial--or worse...
...Packards, and Benzes. In the '20s, Model T Fords were assembled in Argentina, and in 1938, Buenos Aires, Latin America's most motorized city, held its "First International Auto Salon," featuring 60 of the latest models from around the world. Then came World War II, followed by Peron, protectionism and austerity. Argentina was gradually transformed into a land of jalopies, museum pieces and three-wheeled bubble buggies...