VENEZUELA: Old Driver, New Road

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A new band of leaders, grimly and responsibly determined to rescue their people from disease, starvation and ignorance, is at work in Latin America. These leaders replace the medal-jingling military popinjays of old; they shun the demagogic example of Fidel Castro in Cuba; they cherish such institutions as Congress, courts, constitution. They are the hemisphere's real builders.

The nations they govern include the biggest in the hemisphere. Argentina's Arturo Frondizi, inheriting the Santa Claus economy built by Juan PerĂ³n, has fearlessly shot Santa Claus and put the nation to work....

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