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...Government seemed to spike Perón's dream of an Argentine-dominated Bloque Austral (Southern Bloc), Argentina conceivably might sponsor a counterrevolution. Or she could cut off vital exports to Bolivia of wheat and beef. But the U.S., too, had ^n economic wedge. A new Bolivian tin contract was coming up; the U.S. was expected to go through with its plan to pay some 10% more for Bolivia's chief export...
...victory over tyranny was being consolidated. Students and teachers, ordinary citizens, tin barons and tin miners alike supported the efforts of the revolutionary Junta. TIME Correspondent Frank Norris traveled up from Buenos Aires with returning exiles to report the scene...
...week's end exiled factions of both right and left were still trooping back from abroad. The staff of urbane, British-mannered tin baron Carlos Victor Aramayo came up from Argentina. Jose Antonio Arze, head of the strong P.I.R. (Leftist Revolutionary Party) arrived from Santiago. Somewhere between their two groups, Bolivians might find representative government. Promised the Junta: "We will call elections and then turn over our power to a government chosen by the people...
Deadeye. In Maiden, Mass., George Ross, tangled in a conveyor belt, chucked tin cans at a wall switch, hit it, shut off the power, saved his life...
Whoever ruled faced real problems. Bolivia's once-rich tin mines now produced only medium-grade ores. The mass of the coca-chewing Indian population was illiterate, and Bolivia's leaders had so far shown neither the vision nor energy to transform them into efficient producers and prospective consumers. One thin ray of hope: a U.S.-financed highway that would join the dry, food-scarce plateau with the verdant eastern plains, perhaps integrate the country's economy...