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Seekers after culture swarmed Peuser's gallery to see an impressive exhibit of Matisse drawings, attended symphony concerts, heard visiting U.S. composer Aaron Copland conduct his Appalachian Spring ballet suite. Others put their money on the horses at Palermo, San Isidro and La Plata, rattled by train to the mosquito-infested waterways at Tigre for the weekend...
Buenos Aires citizens had heard about such artistic and philosophic vagaries from Dadaism and surrealism to existentialism, yawned at the Madists, and that was not to be borne. This week the Madists were across the Rio de la Plata estuary in Uruguay, seeking a new public. In Montevideo's Salon Aiape, visitors gaped and grinned at sculpture of strangely articulated sticks of wood by Giyulia Kosice (see cut), an irregularly framed abstract painting by Arden Quinn, a collection of odd pieces of paper covered with gibberish...
...Hudson's Biography of the Vizcacha, an Argentine burrowing rodent, from his Naturalist in La Plata...
...meat shipments abroad (including those of British-owned packing plants), wanted to hike beef prices 200%, asked 2½% interest on Argentina's $750 million sterling credit, now frozen in Britain. Mission Chief Sir Wilfrid Eady was surprised by this "cold hostility." He packed his negotiators across the Plata Estuary to Uruguay, waited to see if Perón would change his mind...
Argentina sported the trappings of democracy. But if Juan Domingo Peron's first six weeks as President were any indication, they were only trappings: life was not getting less totalitarian along the Rio de la Plata...