Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Benjamin flew to Asunción for the inauguration of Paraguay's new President, Juan Natalicio Gonzalez. He cabled:
For four days dusty, backward Asuncion looked like the set for a high-budget Warner Brothers' production. Under the palms, military attaches in fancy uniforms and foreign ambassadors wearing bright-hued sashes danced Paraguayan polkas with the dark-eyed daughters of Asuncion society. Workers in pink shirts and red bandannas paraded under the unseasonably hot winter sun. The troops showed off their best uniforms and equipment, while the new President, standing in an open car, dashed about the capital with a bodyguard.
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