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Designer Tank lives quietly with two daughters and a son in the western city of Córdoba, site of Argentina's chief aircraft factory. Though known to some people as Señor Mathies, he entered Argentina legally and makes no attempt to conceal his real identity. A U.S. general officer who met him recently commented feelingly: "Thank God you are working on this side of the Iron Curtain...
...remained courteously mum when only 300,000 pesos of the price was actually paid. This tactful gesture won him entree into the best Peronista circles. In recent weeks Agusti had found that Visca's newsprint squeeze was tightening uncomfortably on his independent journal Córdoba (circ. 20,000). With easy confidence he went to call on Visca at the congressional palace to straighten things...
...door. At 6:30, when the committee members finally came out, Visca ignored Agusti's outstretched hand, seized him by the lapel and roared: "Get out of here or I will break your face!" Only a few hours earlier, Visca had seen a piece in Córdoba referring to Peronista congressmen as "inefficient drones." To emphasize his disapproval, Visca shut Córdoba down entirely...
Christmas shoppers along Buenos Aires' swank Calle Florida found store windows featuring snow-sprinkled effigies of Santa Claus cheek by jowl with scanty bathing suits, tropical clothing and camping gear. In Argentina's interior cities of Tucumán, Córdoba and Santiago del Estero, the mercury climbed to 106°. That, announced the Argentine weather man, made it the hottest December on record...
...pieces impressed only a handful of U.S. editors.) Those who knew how Perón's rule works found a more convincing explanation. Last week the long established Argentine Federation of Newspapermen, which has refused to knuckle under to Perón, was meeting at Córdoba. By accepting membership in the rival syndicate, President Perón delivered a well understood and pointed rebuke to such independence...