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Onassis spends four or five months a year aboard the Christina, confirming his self-image as a latter-day Odysseus. Old Argentinian friends describe him as a "Vivo"?a shrewd, live-wire operator behind whose enigmatic, almost Oriental facade lies a volcanic rage and a long memory for a grudge. He is apolitical, and indeed could hardly be otherwise in the volatile Athenian climate. Forced to wheel and deal with the present junta for economic survival, he was last week on the verge of completing a $360 million deal to build a seaport, an aluminum-processing plant (with Reynolds...
Flash of Rebellion. After Per&243;n the vivo, Frondizi-the austere, finger-wagging intellectual-was an emotional frustration. The next-to-youngest of 14 children born to an immigrant Italian bridge builder, Frondizi was a shy, unexceptional youth, who showed his first flash of spirit in 1930 against then Dictator Jose Uri-buru. Frondizi completed a six-year law course in three, with honors. But on graduation day he stood on the platform, and refused to accept his honors certificate "from a government put in power and maintained by military force...
Died. Giovanni Papini, 75, brilliant Italian philosopher (A Finished Man) and biographer (Dante Vivo, Michelangelo), author of the bestselling Life of Christ (1921), a celebrated but intensely personal act of repentance by which he tried to atone for his early, noisy atheism; after long illness; in Florence, Italy. A revolutionary turned ascetic, near-blind Author Papini dallied with the Devil nearly all his life ("My relations with the Devil are very ancient ... It seems to me important that men should know him intimately"), made emptiness of the soul his province with his bleak rendering (1931) of Gog ("Is not bread...
...chose a presidential candidate for next October's election. The nominee Juscelino Kubitschek, 53, samba-dancing, spellbinding governor of the Texas-sized inland state of Minas Gerais. After the balloting (1,646 to 0, with 279 abstentions), Kubitschek's followers roared his longtime political theme song, Peixe Vivo (Living Fish), an old Portuguese ballad...
...Vivo Perón Viudo!" But while Peron was emasculating his political opposition, he ran into economic storms. By the middle of 1948, his regime had dissipated some $1.2 billion in foreign exchange that Argentina had piled up during World War II. Some of it went to buy the British-owned railways and the U.S.-owned telephone system and to build up a creditable merchant marine. But millions went down the drain in a reckless buying spree to round up foreign equipment for the President's grandiose five-year industrialization plan. On top of that, IAPI, the state trading...