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...Venezuela, some of them doing well in the booming horse-racing business. As Perón landed in Caracas, he was cheered by some 100 of these supporters with a fervor reminiscent of his old days in power. First to step up and embrace the fading strongman: General Raúl Tanco, one of the leaders of a June revolt against Argentina's provisional government...
...APRA candidates under the labels of lesser parties apparently won a majority of seats. As he claimed victory, Prado announced that he would submit to this Congress a bill to legalize APRA. Once the bill passes, he told interviewers, he supposed the APRA's famed founder, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, could return from foreign exile...
Pacific Nightmare. In the interest of democratized gentility, the café's Pacific Snack Room (overlooking the Place de l'Opéra) has been remodeled with glass walls and concealed lighting under supervision of the government, which classes the Café de la Paix as an artistic monument. Though most of the restaurant's specialities, e.g., la bouillabaisse de Marius, may be ordered at the counter, the management is making its big pitch for the tourist with short-order dishes that would have made Brillat-Savarin shudder. Items: Pacific Nightmare, a 95? pie filled with minced...
...André Millon. To boost the family's sagging revenues, Chapotin started the successful Pam-Pam chain of quick-lunch restaurants, two years ago quietly opened a Pam-Pam in the Café de la Paix bar, around the corner from the Place de 1'Opéra...
...exile's comeback threat by dropping in for an interview at the former dictator's modest suite in the U.S.-owned Hotel Washington in Colón, Panama. The marked men: Argentine navy and air force officers; such big industrialists as the Bembergs (beer) and Raúl Lamuraglia (textiles); La Prensa Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz and that paper's longtime news service, the United Press; the rulers of Uruguay, where Perón's exiles plotted; and the Roman Catholic clergy...