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Unrehearsed as usual, M. C. Paco Malgesto sauntered into his Mexico City TV studio only 30 minutes before show time, glanced vaguely over the program and took to the air. Up wriggled his guest, an Uruguayan beauty queen named Eda Lorna. She was muffled in a red velvet robe from chin to trim ankle. "It says here," said Malgesto politely, "that you dance the mambo in ballet style." Eda impatiently corrected him: "I dance the mambo in sexy style," dramatically ripped off her robe and with only a G-string to protect her from studio drafts, did her routine. Frantically...
...Uruguay a large part of the $25.5 million World Bank loan was made in West German marks, and the rest in Swedish kronor, Swiss francs, and other currencies to allow the country's nationalized electric-power system to buy equipment from European bidders. The specific Uruguayan project: a hydroelectric power plant at Rincón de Biagorria on the Rio Negro complete with transmission and distribution facilities. The new plant will increase Uruguay's power production...
With little more than a month to go before the national convention, the Democratic Baby last week was uncommonly quiet and still. Party leaders nibbled cucumber sandwiches in Illinois, collected chigger bites in Iowa, stood at attention for the Uruguayan national anthem in Montevideo (Minn.), smiled at each other across a table in Manhattan's "21." At national committee headquarters, staff members were calmly looking beyond the convention, planning to conduct the fall campaign with the help of Madison Avenue's Norman, Craig & Kummel, Inc., the advertising agency that made the Maidenform bra a symbol of the American...
Over 120 students were wounded, according to the letter, when Assuncion police arrested visiting Argentine and Uruguayan student delegates as "foreign subversives inciting treason...
Probably the most relaxed part of the whole trip was the tea break with the Eisenhowers at the White House. It was scheduled for half an hour, but the chief executives and their ladies exchanged gifts (an antique dueling pistol for Ike, an Uruguayan nutria lap robe for Mrs. Eisenhower, framed photographs of the Eisenhowers and a bust of George Washington for the visitors), enjoyed themselves so thoroughly that an hour slipped by. Then Batlle Berres hopped a plane for a Boston dinner date, spent the next two days being feted at breakfasts, luncheons and dinners and talking about boosting...