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The night before his ship sailed, posters appeared on city walls summoning Porteños to a farewell to "a great friend of all Argentines." They responded. Next day at the dock, a band alternately played the Argentine national anthem and the Star-Spangled Banner. President Perón, his...
To many a Porteño, futbol is indispensable Sunday afternoon entertainment. But last Sunday, football, along with all other sports events, was canceled. Argentina was in the midst of its first general census in 33 years. Business closed down, and only essential services were maintained, with skeleton staffs. By...
Nevertheless, La Prensa is still a formidable institution. Foreign governments implicitly accept its news. Reporters work gladly in its clublike editorial rooms for less than they could get elsewhere. Its circulation paces the field in Latin America. Porteños guess that despite skying costs the paper makes a million...
Ouvrez la Porte. Maurice Richard is the left-handed right wing of Montreal's league-leading Les Canadiens. He has made a runaway of this season's scoring race (with 36 goals, 22 assists), though for a while one rival club assigned two men to guard him - as...
In partisan Montreal, fans speak of The Rocket in the same breath with hockey's immortal Howie Morenz. Other hockey towns, which have heckled him by calling out "Ouvrez la porte, Richard," are now ready to agree that he is more than a wartime wonder.