Word: evita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hearth. Evita spends $40,000 or more a year just for dresses from Paris' top designers.*In 1950, she ordered gowns from Balmain, Dior, Fath and Rochas. She has the 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...
Despite the glitter of her trappings, Evita leads an almost austere life. She and her husband live simply; they rarely go out at night except to official ceremonies. El Presidente has always been an early riser and hard worker; La Presidenta keeps the same pace. From time to time, they retire briefly to San Vicente, their country place, where Perón likes to put on gaucho's trousers and stroll among his dogs, ostriches and chickens. Evita knocks around in slacks and cooks an occasional omelette...
These are dedicated days for Evita. Other Peronistas may be in the movement for what they can get out of it, but Evita lives as one convinced that her husband's regime is a new and revolutionary force in the world. "I have dedicated myself fanatically to Perón and to Perón's ideals," she says. "Without fanaticism one cannot accomplish anything." In public speeches she has coupled her husband's name with the name of Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Last fortnight, while he stood beaming at her side, she compared...
...Juan and Evita Perón's Argentina, events are marching decisively in 1951. Inflation remains the country's greatest problem and peril, but the threat of World War III has given the economy a temporary lift. The war, Argentines feel sure, will not be their war; ever since sentiment flared up last summer against sending even token forces to Korea, Perón has proclaimed that Argentines will defend their own black soil, and no more...
...Power. Perón recently told a friend: "These are my three instruments of power-the C.G.T., the Peronista Party, and the Peronista women's party." The two significant things about this statement: i) Ex-Colonel Perón did not even mention the army, and 2) Evita bosses two of the three key groups...