Word: evita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first aid. In the 20-block, four-abreast queue were infants in arms and a 102-year-old woman who cried, "I've never known real pain before." To feed the multitude, the army set up 24 field kitchens, gave away sandwiches, oranges, coffee. The street outside Evita's resting place was packed with 8,340 funeral wreaths, costing...
Rarely has there been such a display of public feeling as the frenzied mourning of Evita...
...Union of Workers and Employees of the Food Industry cabled a request to Pope Pius XII to canonize Evita. ¶ Minister of Public Health Ramon Carrillo ordered a 220-lb. candle, the height of Evita (5 ft. 5 in.), to be installed in the ministry and lighted for an hour on the 26th day of every month (the day Evita died). Carrillo thought the candle would last 100 years or more. ¶ Schoolkids got prizes for poems and essays praising Evita. They were also told that she "got sick because she kissed the ill, the lepers, the consumptives." ¶ Carlos...
...clamorous was the public lamentation that Evita's funeral was postponed indefinitely. Instead, the government planned to move her body this weekend to Congress, there to lie briefly in state. Then her closed casket will go to the headquarters of the great labor federation she controlled, to stay until a downtown monument tomb can be completed...
...given a permanent resting place until her monument is ready, two years from now. This week her body was to be taken in a vast funeral procession to Argentina's central labor union headquarters near the Buenos Aires docks. The government, meanwhile, announced that July 26, the day Evita died, will be observed for the "rest of history" as a day of national mourning. And good Peronistas, the party ruled, will wear black ties at party meetings "forever...