Word: strongmanism
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Happy Birthday." The strongman fell with dramatic suddenness. As the fateful week opened, the government propaganda machine was still repetitiously insisting that the rebellion was about to collapse, that loyalist troops had retaken the rebel stronghold of Córdoba. But Peron's government, not the rebellion, was about to collapse...
...military issue was still in doubt, but there was no doubt whatever that Perón's power and prestige had suffered a shattering blow. If the government commanders could beat down the rebellion, they might let Perón come back on stage, but scarcely as the strongman of old. Even if he manages to hang on to the title of President for a while, Sept. 16 is likely to go down in history as the day Juan Perón's luck ran out as dictator of Argentina...
...combined team of 22 American civilians and SAC airmen who thought they knew something about judo, Japan's "soft art," took a painful trouncing from some Hokkaido University students at Sapporo, Japan. George F. Geisenhoff, 200-lb. SAC strongman, was tossed out of the ring and broke his collarbone; Kenji Honda, 130-Ib. American of Japanese ancestry, was all but smothered by his opponent and wound up with several broken ribs...
...Strongman Juan Perón changed his Foreign Minister and shook up his police command last week, leading some observers to think they smelled the smoke of a flaming crisis. One rumor even had it that Perón himself might resign the next day. But there was no flare-up, only the volcanic smoke and rumbles normal to Perón's Argentina...
After the brief, bloody revolt of June 16, the jolted strongman herded four scapegoats out of his Cabinet. Jerónimo Remorino, Foreign Minister since 1951, was a logical Scapegoat No. 5. As Minister of Worship (the Foreign Minister wears two hats), he had official jurisdiction over church-state relations during Perón's bitter pre-revolt feud with the Roman Catholic Church. But Perón deferred action on Remorino's tendered resignation for a while, possibly to keep the herding from looking like a stampede. Last week, with Remorino disabled by a liver ailment...