"Viva Per

To run his guns-for-butter Five-Year Plan (TIME, Oct. 14), Juan Peron last week picked a man tabbed by the U.S. Blue Book as a wartime A is agent. His choice: Barcelona-born Jose Figuerola, who got his start by blueprinting Government-bossed trade unions for Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera in the '20s. In Argentina, where he took out citizenship papers in 1930, chubby Jose Figuerola kept up the good work as Juan Peron's Man Friday and expert on labor matters. Argentines now saw -his fine Iberian hand in almost every paragraph of the President's new plan.

Because none of the 27 laws enacting the Five-Year Plan had yet been passed, Figuerola's job was still pretty much a promotion job. Last week, as he and other Peronistas hopefully plugged the plan as the complete cure for Argentine troubles, Portenos told a story that pointed up the need to do something:

A middle-class couple went fishing. The husband caught a fat ten-pound dorado, gloated: "We'll have it with baked potatoes." Replied his wife: "You can't get potatoes for love or money--couldn't for months." "All right," said the husband, "let's have it fried, and eat it with vegetables." "But," said the wife, "there haven't been any vegetables in town since the truck gardeners went on strike." "Oh well," said the husband, "then just fry it in oil." The wife's answer: "There's none to be had." The husband chucked t" e fish back. Cried the fish as it popped its head out of the water: "Viva Peron!"

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