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...character called the Candidate and later the President is manifestly Salvador Allende. Similarly, the Poet, whose verse everyone in the book seems to have memorized, is clearly Chile's late Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Ghostly happenings are commonplace in the great house of the "spirits" belonging to the Truebas. Eccentrics abound in that household. Rosa the Beautiful, for example, possesses a head of green hair that hangs "like a botanical mantle" down to her waist. Nicolas Trueba moves from one enterprise to another, successively teaching flamenco dancing, building a zeppelin, running a chicken-sandwich factory, traveling around India clad...
Died. Andrés Martinez Trueba, 75, President of Uruguay who voluntarily stepped down in his second year (1952) of office to permit the introduction of a government by council, patterned after Switzerland's, with a rotating chairmanship, and was elected first chairman; in Montevideo, Uruguay...
With their usual equanimity in political matters, Uruguayans quietly witnessed a notable change in their country's government last week. Just one year after his inauguration, President Andrés Martínez Trueba stepped down from his high office and took oath as a member of the new nine-man federal council. Thus the "Switzerland of the Americas" became one of the two countries in the world to be governed by an executive council with a rotating chairmanship. (The other: Switzerland.) As its first presiding officer, the council chose a man who had worked hard to persuade Uruguayans...
...Uruguay's Martinez Trueba...
...another quick swing around his circuit. In a 20-day South American tour, he will pay an official visit to Brazil's new Foreign Minister Joāo Neves da Fontoura, represent the U.S. at the inauguration of Uruguay's President Andrés Martinez Trueba, attend the Pan American Olympic games at Buenos Aires, address the U.N. Economic and Social conferences at Santiago, and pay a courtesy call in Lima...