Word: derring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hasten his death. Just as ominous, though, is the problem that Peron faces within his own political movement, which is sharply split between the right and the left. The rightists, reports TIME Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, seem as loyal as ever, willing to follow el Líder virtually wherever he takes them. But the leftists, who include many youths barely born when Perón was ousted by a military coup in 1955, are relying on him to create a "socialist fatherland." They give indications that they may settle for nothing less. "Perón promised youth...
...Argentina had accumulated as a neutral supplier of foodstuffs during and after World War II (making it then the richest country in Latin America, with foreign-currency reserves totaling $1.7 billion). The nationalized industries stagnated; inflation soared. Even the workers began to have second thoughts about el Líder as their paychecks purchased less...
...however, is nonideological. So far this year, Evert has won $70,050. With endorsement mon ey from Puritan and Wilson Sporting Goods, she figures to earn around $150,000. Most of the offers to lend her name to everything from leg lotion and deodorants to toothpaste and soap pow der have been turned down. Explains Jimmy Evert: "It takes time to do these things. When Chrissie's not playing ten nis, I'd rather she not be doing things that will tire her out. This is still a game with us. It's not a business...
...scattered, as if--like the baroque boulevards, the bombed-out imperial facades in the East, the shape of the divided city as a whole--the great spaces had been split-up and re-scaled. The most romantic of the architecture--Hans Scharoun's philharmonic hall and Mies van der Rohe's New National Gallery (if only the romanticism of plain marble and great steel beams)--is set apart in the developing Tiergarten Cultural Center...
...more sophisticated in its tastes, it seems likely that the Disney organization will gradually have to change the formulas for its line of plastics. That would be no bad thing, for it has always seemed a shame that this magnificent machinery, with its enormous potential for excitement and won der, should confine itself to the middle and lower cultural ranges. It would be delightful to see it run risky and frisky - the way it did when everyone called its founder "Walt" instead of "Uncle Walt." · Richard Schickel