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...furs of a czarina, the jewels of a maharani. Last year Perón took a fancy to a U.S. visitor and volunteered to show him around the presidential mansion. While displaying roomful after roomful of Evita's clothes the President guffawed: "Not exactly a descamisada, eh?" Evita herself is not a bit abashed. She is quite likely to appear at a streetcleaners' rally dressed in a Paris frock and glittering with jewels. She is well aware that in the eyes of many a descamisado she is Cinderella in the flesh. With sound political instinct, she dresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Love in Power | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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