Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bothers the Argentines little that neighboring Chile claims part of the same slice (see map}, but they simmer at Great Britain's pretensions to sovereignty over every square mile of Argentina's frozen empire. Since Strongman Juan Peron came to power in 1945. Argentina and Great Britain have carried on a sort of supercooled war along the antarctic coast, each protesting whenever the other side acts as though it regards any particular expanse...
Argentina's Strongman Juan PerÓn, already acclaimed at home as his nation's No. 1 worker, No. 1 engine-driver, No. 1 journalist and No. 1 sportsman, won his oddest title yet. The canary breeders of the city of Rosario (pop. 522,000) presented Aviculturist Peron with a pink warbler, a gold medal and bird-seeded him as the Argentine's No. 1 canary breeder...
Died. Mario Avelino Peron, 64, only brother of Argentina's President Juan Domingo Peron; of peritonitis; in Buenos Aires. Appointed director of the Buenos Aires Zoo by brother Juan in 1946, Mario Perón avoided the spotlight and politics, once said: "I prefer my zoo, where I have all my animals labeled...
...attack in his running feud with the Roman Catholic Church (TIME, Jan. 3 et ante). The Peronista paper Critica went out of its way to allege that 80% of the homosexuals arrested last week "had been educated in religious schools." Feuding & Fussing. Impatient of even mild opposition, Strongman Peron has been feuding with the church since last summer, when he became worried about clerical influence in labor unions and the possibility of a Roman Catholic political party. Since then, the cops have banned numerous Roman Catholic gatherings and jailed several priests. Scores of priests have lost government jobs as teachers...
...Roman Catholic "idols" (i.e., religious statues) from schools. Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi signed a decree authorizing non-Catholic religious organizations to provide "material and spiritual help" in hospitals and prisons and charitable institutions-a privilege previously reserved to the Roman Catholic Church. And persistent rumors had it that Peron was even getting ready to put an end to the special constitutional status of the Roman Catholic Church as the nation's official religion...