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...national election of 1952, the U.R.D. inflicted a humiliating defeat on President Marcos Pérez Jiménez' government party. The strong man-pausing only to recount the vote's in his own favor -angrily exiled Ignacio and three of Pedro Arcaya's children for good measure. Aristocratic Don Pedro and his wife were not bothered, but the ouster of her children so outraged Senora Arcaya that she took to spending hours on the telephone denouncing the dictator to her society friends. One Christmas the elder Arcayas found their phone, ripped out and tied with...
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Paso de la Muerte. In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Pickpocket Adolfo Ramírez proudly told police he wished he could patent his new pilfering technique of spreading a sample of cloth over his right arm while posing as a piece-goods salesman, then distracting his victims' attention with left-handed gestures while his right hand explored their pockets...
...feast day from the list of national holidays, the archdiocese of Buenos Aires postponed the traditional Corpus Christi procession from Thursday to Saturday so that more workingmen could attend. In an attempt to divert Catholics from the Plaza de Mayo, Perón & Co. timed Boxer Pascual Pérez homecoming from Japan (where he had defended his world flyweight championship) to coincide with the Corpus Christi ceremonies. At midweek the government invoked the law, passed after the church feud broke out, banning outdoor religious gatherings without police permission...
...most Peruvians give him his due but now yearn for a change. Odria knows this; he is honest with himself. "We are Latins," he says. "People are growing a bit tired of me. That is the Latin way." The attention of Peru, and of Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez and other interested bystanders, now centers on the manner of the change, and the man whom Odria will choose to sit in the carved presidential armchair once used by Peru's Conquistador Francisco Pizarro...