Word: estela
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flight from Buenos Aires to a golf and cartoon holiday was the latest chapter in a singularly improbable career. Born Maria Estela Martinez in 1931, the sixth child of a middle-class family from the impoverished Argentine province of La Rioja, Isabel owes her tenuous hold on power to a chance encounter with Juan Perón in 1956. Then 25, she was a petite dancer touring Central America with a troupe called Joe and his Ballets. Perón, then 60, had just been overthrown by a military coup following nine years as President. After catching...
...After reading your recent articles on Argentina [July 15, 22], I cannot help regretting the repeated references made to the new President of this country, Maria Estela Martinez de Perón, as the "former cabaret dancer...
...husband's illness. It was she who, choking back tears, announced that he had died. And it was again she?dressed in black unadorned with jewelry?who symbolized Argentina's sorrow. The icy smile, the tightly pulled-back hair dyed dark blonde and the slightly strident voice of Maria Estela ("Isabelita") Martinez de Perón, 43, last week dominated the thoughts of Argentines nearly as much as did the death of her husband Juan Per?...