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...control the country. But when Holland returned to Argentina last week, he found President Pedro Aramburu and his government quite content to forget it and get on with friendship as usual. Holland twice chatted cordially with Aramburu and held lengthy talks with Aramburu's No. 1 economic advisor, Raúl Prebisch. They agreed to go ahead with the $60 million U.S. loan for an Argentine steel mill that had been in the works under Perón, and completed the spadework for future credits...
...entire six floors. Only the outside will remain the same. France's "Law on Historic Monuments" jealously prohibits tampering with the building's traditional façade; city officials refused even to let American Express sandblast its grimy exterior lest this make the nearby grimy Opéra look even dirtier...
There were only ten in the company, the sets were all but nonexistent, and the orchestra of the Royal Theater in Copenhagen had dwindled to an offstage piano. But the world's second oldest ballet (after France's L'Opéra) and Western Europe's second best (after Britain's Sadler's Wells) had no need of sounding brass or tinkling cymbal. Dancing a series of divertissements and set pieces from their repertory, they delighted packed houses of up-from-the-city balletomanes and matinee contingents from nearby girls' camps with...
...haciendas and most of the businesses and industries of Lima. But in the '20s, a group of left-wingers at San Marcos University (which is 85 years older than Harvard) saw in the national division the makings of an extremist mass party. A silver-tongued intellectual named Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre thereupon founded a movement called Apra (from the Spanish initials of Popular Revolutionary Alliance of America...
...requirement was not so simple: good-conduct clearance from the local town hall. Other braceros, however, provided a tip. Serrano could pester officials and wait-or he could put up a few hundred pesos to bribe the "coyote," a man with unexplained but indisputable pull among town officials. Coyote Raúl Díaz readily confirmed the advice. "You pay," he said, "and you go." Serrano was bewildered and angry. "We are needed," he argued. "We are asked to go. Why should...