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Juan Peron, Argentina's onetime strongman, has said repeatedly that he would return to his homeland "when the people tell me the bollo [roll] is ready for the oven." Apparently the bollo is now ready. In Buenos Aires, Peron's top aide, Hector Compara, announced that el Lider would arrive in Argentina on Nov. 17, thus ending 17 years of exile abroad, most of it spent in princely isolation in Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: El Lider Returns | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...hungry he was and Girl stood aside while the little mongrel ate from hers. He was citybred like his dad and Sam, who had been born poor in South Philadelphia or someplace with no background of his own, had given his dog the classiest of names: ALFRED WARBURG FRICK BOLLO III, a heavy weight for such a little rattle-rear to carry around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...dill and with a delicious white powder from the cabinet which not even Merilee could identify; and when the love of her twenty-three summers, Sam Sam the sculptor man and manager of motor hotels and graduate of the world's second most prestigious business school, when Sam Bollo, sitting at the head of the table nude but for a medallion on his furry breast and a feather in his black hair, when Sam Bollo had lifted the lid from the pumpkin and steam had escaped, he ladled up first off, with the other pungent insides already named, a whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...just say NO to me like that, Sam Bollo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...Girl growling and Stefan sad. Merilee a proper wife holding her tongue. Thinking, " If there's no money, then we'll have no fig trees. Our ancestors crossed the Donner and left Tulsa in their Conestoga wagons to escape just such old-fashioned logical connectors." And if Sam Bollo thought he was the hot shit who could deny her what she had always wanted just through some old cranky Philadelphia logic, then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

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