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...overthrown, he is either tossed into prison or hustled into exile, where he can live on the money that, most probably, he has stashed away while in office. But last June, when General Juan Carlos Onganía and his military supporters ousted Argentina's President Arturo Umberto Illia, they did not bother with such formalities. Judging the mild-mannered, scrupulously honest, onetime country doctor to be no threat to them, the soldiers simply told him to go home. Trouble was, Illia had no home...
Thus last week did Argentina's military announce the overthrow of President Arturo Umberto Illia, 64, the quiet, courtly country doctor who took office in 1963 and proceeded to do almost nothing for 32 months. The military sent Illia packing, off to his brother's home twelve miles north of Buenos Aires, dissolved Congress, the Supreme Court and all political parties, and announced the formation of a three-man junta. It is headed by Provisional President Juan Carlos Onganía, Illia's one-time army commander in chief who, until his resignation last November, was considered...
CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON, recalled by Count Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. The century's most celebrated connoisseur of Italian painting was also a dazzling conversationalist whose aphorisms and tidbits of gossip fortunately were recorded for posterity by Count Morra...
CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON, recalled by Count Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. The century's most celebrated connoisseur of Italian painting, the late Bernard Berenson was also a dazzling conversationalist whose aphorisms and tidbits of gossip fortunately were recorded for posterity by Count Morra...
CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON, recalled by Count Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. The late Bernard Berenson, the American critic who trained his eye on Italian Renaissance art and his tongue in the art of conversation, was both wise and wise guy when discussing painting, disseminating gossip, or commenting on life. Count Morra, one of Berenson's frequent guests, fortunately took notes...