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Died. Dr. Juan Hortensio Quijano, 67, since 1946 Vice President of Argentina; after long post-operative illness; in Buenos Aires...
Just twelve days before next week's elections, Juan Perón finally started his leave of absence, ostensibly to be free to campaign for reelection. Because Vice President Hortensio Quijano is ailing, the President handed over his powers to Admiral Alberto Teisaire, 60, president of the Senate, who also happens to be head of the Peronista Party...
...boiling out of the bleachers, police hastily surrounded Othello Renfroe and escorted him two blocks to a police station, where he was fined 250 pesos ($29) for assault & battery. That night, after Torreón had won the game 5 to 4, the Association of Umpires wired Doctor Eduardo Quijano, president of the Mexican Baseball League, announcing that no further umpiring would take place in the league until Renfroe had been expelled. Next morning, before the league had had time to act on the umpires' demand, government agents picked Renfroe up and put him aboard a plane...
...nationalists were unmoved. Said Dr. Alejandro Quijano, president of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua: "My heart grieves at these dangers. New words, new ideas we welcome. But we want no bastard words from beyond our borders...
With the rioting over, recriminations began. The press blamed the Government; Perón blamed "the Communists." The Minister of the Interior, Hortensio Quijano, threatened "extreme measures...