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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...
...failed to last). But the blue-and-white American entry was quickly passed by Hawthorn in his grey D-Jag. Behind him was Moss in his Aston Martin. Fangio, the balding ex-bus driver who was the pampered protege of Argentina's deposed Dictator Juan Peron, ran an easy third...
Died. Lieut. General Eduardo Lonardi, 59, who overthrew the ten-year rule of Argentina's Strongman Juan Peron in last year's five-day revolution, served as provisional President for 50 days, until ousted by a palace coup (TIME, Nov. 21) for his moderate attitude toward defeated Peronistas; after long illness; in Buenos Aires' Central Military Hospital. Soft-spoken General Lonardi spent a year (1947-48) in Washington as Argentina's representative on the Inter-American Defense Board, was forced out of the army in 1951 for allegedly plotting against Peron. Jailed for eight months...
...House Forum, which has had discussions ranging from desegregation to Peron, and a Music Society, each present common room programs on alternate Wednesdays, and the Dunster Dunces, made up of House members, are a well-Known Cambridge singing ensemble...