Word: plata
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After the election came carnival. Posters blaring announcements of fiesta dances encroached on the tattered billboard images of Perón and Tamborini. Argentines who could afford it rushed off to the villas and casino of Mar del Plata. Yet Argentina, recovering slowly from the calmest election day-and bitterest campaign-in its history, was hardly in a carnival mood. It was still dazed. Juan Pueblo, the man on the Buenos Aires street corner, contemplating the strange, post-election calm, said "Parece raro-Seems funny...
...Argentina, the rich got the word. At pre-arranged H-hour, in a Mar del Plata casino, anti-Perón playboys and playgirls rose from the Government-run roulette wheels, started to march out. Perón's police, hurling tear gas, unrelentingly forced them back to the tables...
...King Carol of Rumania and his Madame Lupescu paraded down the mosaic sidewalks that curl along the slim half-moon of Copacabana beach. Tens of thousands of cariocas, impelled by a summer heat wave, dashed into the Atlantic's cool, green breakers. At Argentina's Mar del Plata, the Unzues and the Martinez de Hozes and all the other upper-crusters sunned themselves at private beach clubs, far from the madding crowd, and seldom swam (the water was too cold...
...huge four-engined Sunderland flying boat last week approached Buenos Aires from the east, lazily circled the city. Along the Plata estuary, 30,000 enthusiastic Porteños watched the plane land smoothly. Then out hopped the plane's proud owner and Pan American Airways' newest South American competitor, Argentine shipping tycoon Alberto Dodero...
...nation or group of nations in the domestic affairs of any American country. Instead, he advocated joint intervention against any nation which violates "the elementary rights of man and of the citizens." The Uruguayans had good reason to fear violators of democratic rights. Across the Rio de la Plata, the hard-booted Argentine colonels tramped and threatened...