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...hotel suite was impossible to ignore, even at 5 on a Sunday morning. Former Bolivian President Hernàn Siles Zuazo, 50, stumbled drowsily out of bed to answer the summons, and there stood half a dozen members of the government's control político police. "You mean you're going to arrest the chief of the revolution?" asked Siles. They were indeed. Two days later, Siles and 33 other, lesser Bolivians were unceremoniously air-expressed to exile in neigh boring Paraguay...
...Three. Living quietly in his Mexico City mansion with his wife Angelica, downing highballs of unproletarian Scotch (at $18 a fifth), Siqueiros has been turning out portraits at top prices, putting up new murals in hospitals, generally enjoying his reputation as a type muy simpático. But last week it was like old times again...
...more simpático of recent public figures in Argentina was Eva Perón's lively, silver miniature French poodle Negrita. Whether at work at the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, or at home to greet distinguished visitors, Negrita and Evita were almost inseparable. When Negrita died last August, Argentine representatives abroad were asked to find a replacement...
...revolutions in Peru and Venezuela fresh in mind, more than one Latin American capital was jittery about how the cavalry would vote. Latest to buzz with alarms and rumors was Quito, capital of Ecuador, where President Galo Plaza Lasso was tiffing with his own party (Movimiento Civico Democrático National). Hottest rumors: 1) army officers were angry over slow promotions; 2) aviation officers were angry over delayed pay raises; 3) Socialist leaders were trying to organize an anti-government movement among noncoms. TIME'S Quito correspondent cabled: "The government is not shaky in the sense that it could...
...Surgical Digest, co-editor of Surgical Magazine, author of 250 scientific articles. Since Surgeon Ochsner and four Tulane colleagues started the clinic in 1941, it has treated 70,000 patients. Among them are many Latin American millionaires and government officials who find Dr. Ochsner and New Orleans simpático. Other Ochsner patients: the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Trumpeter Muggsy Spanier...