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Died. José P. Tamborini. 69, physician, sometime translator, coalition candidate (Communist-Socialist-Radical) in the stormy 1946 Argentine presidential election, in which he was resoundingly defeated by the now deposed strongman Juan Peron (see THE HEMISPHERE); in Buenos Aires...
After the election came carnival. Posters blaring announcements of fiesta dances encroached on the tattered billboard images of Perón and Tamborini. Argentines who could afford it rushed off to the villas and casino of Mar del Plata. Yet Argentina, recovering slowly from the calmest election day-and bitterest campaign-in its history, was hardly in a carnival mood. It was still dazed. Juan Pueblo, the man on the Buenos Aires street corner, contemplating the strange, post-election calm, said "Parece raro-Seems funny...
...returns for crucial Buenos Aires province (88 of the 376 electoral votes) were postponed till six small precincts, whose votes had been thrown out for possible fraud, could reballot next Sunday. Though Perón led, the tardy 88 votes could conceivably swing the balance back to Democratic Opponent Tamborini...
...matter who won the Presidency, Strong Man Juan Perón promised to remain the Strong Man of Argentina. His new Labor party piled up votes in working-class districts. It won seat after seat in Congress, even capturing all lesser offices in San Luis province which Tamborini had carried. If Tamborini by some miracle beat Perón, he would probably be confronted with a hostile Congress and unfriendly provincial governments...
...city and province of Buenos Aires, which controlled almost half of the nation's 376 electoral votes, would swing the election. Perón would show his chief strength among country peons and unorganized workers of the cities. Tamborini depended on the upper and middle classes and an unknown sector of organized labor. A potent, unmeasured factor: the Church, which took a jaundiced view of Tamborini's Communist support...