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Hard-core Peronistas, outlawed as a party but still reasonably well organized through former Dictator Juan Peron's spy network, are being urged by clandestine leaflets to cast blank ballots in all elections until their hero returns. A hodgepodge of smaller parties, whose leaders fear a licking at the polls, has also come out for blank ballots. Meanwhile, the powerful Radicals faction, headed by Lawyer Arturo Frondizi, is hoping to gain control of the assembly, vote its immediate dissolution and call for general elections. The People's Radical Party, which split off from the Frondizi group last winter...
...Standard Electric, to zero. But in Rumania, Behn arrived in the nick of time, sold out for $13.8 million shortly before the country went over to the Nazis. In Argentina in 1946, he showed the same brilliant talent for beating a profitable retreat. Facing confiscation, he somehow maneuvered Dictator Peron into buying I.T. & T. there for $93 million...
...turned Congress into a Peronista rubber stamp, had it impeach and convict the balky Supreme Court. In a rewritten "social-justice" constitution, he legalized the re-election of Presidents for his own benefit, gave the state power to "intervene in the economy." He deluged the country with billboard propaganda: "Peron Fulfills, Evita Dignifies." With malicious glee he seized Buenos Aires' La Prensa, long famed as one of the world's topflight newspapers, turned it into a mouthpiece for the C.G.T. And with engaging buffoonery, he joked at his own career: "As the man who fell from the skyscraper...
Aramburu and Rojas brought the rudder back from right to dead ahead, and got on with their mission. The government restored the U.S.-style constitution that had served, until Peron emasculated it, since 1853. The regime wiped Peron's name from public display in Argentina, except for curbstone scribblings and his father's tomb. An expedition was sent up Aconcagua, the Hemisphere's highest (alt. 22,835 ft.) mountain, to topple a bust of the dictator. A team of clerks screened thousands of references to his name from the Buenos Aires telephone book-but recently discovered that...
...Other Man. A nuisance that often faces the junta from afar is Juan Peron in exile...