Word: argentina
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Messing survived a year's worth of Olympic qualifications before being named the starting goalie. At the Pan-American games in Call, Colombia this past summer, the United States finished fifth out of sixteen teams and Messing was named the tournament's outstanding goalie. He held first-place Argentina to only one goal...
...brief 33 years, Eva Perón traveled fast and far. The illegitimate daughter of a dirt farmer and a woman who ran a rooming house, she became the second wife of Argentine Dictator Juan Perón. With her expansive charity giveaways, Evita, as she was known to Argentina's adoring masses, became a cult figure-the "Queen of the Descamisados" (the shirtless ones...
...transferred from Italy and returned, as an act of "Christian dignity," to Juan Perón, now 75 and living in exile in Spain with his third wife. The transfer was reportedly part of a political accommodation between the Peronistas, who are still the most vociferous political force in Argentina, and the military regime of General Alejandro Lanusse...
...together from various sources last week. It appears that Evita's body arrived in Milan on May 17, 1957, accompanied by Giuseppina Airoldi, a lay sister of the Company of St. Paul. Signora Airoldi believed the body to be that of an Italian woman who had died in Argentina-Maria Maggi, widow of Luigi De Magistris. The body was buried in Lot 86, Garden 41, in Milan's Musocco Cemetery...
Juan Perón has vowed that Eva will one day return to Argentina. Lanusse, who seized power in a coup six months ago, has said that Perón is welcome to come back. Political sources note, however, that there are still a lot of Argentines who would like to see the old dictator dead. The experts are betting that Perón will not return-not even to bring his beloved Evita home...