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...stepped onto a balcony in Buenos Aires one wintry evening last week. In the street below, a crowd of 10,000 stood near a floodlighted, 24 ft. by 12 ft. photograph of the late Eva Perón. One minute went by. At 8:25, exactly three years after Evita died of cancer, bugles blared. After listening to a four-minute panegyric read by a dolorous radio announcer, the crowd shuffled silently past the balcony. Peron made no speech. There was none of the tone of totalitarian frenzy that usually went with Peron's balcony scenes in the past...
...officials ostentatiously gathered at the airport to welcome Argentine Boxer Pascual Perez home from Japan, where he had won the flyweight (112-lb.) championship of the world. That same day, the Peron General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) ordered the "lay enthronement" of the late Eva Peron; pictures of Evita are to be posted at all union headquarters so that "workers may venerate [her] memory...
...quinta in Olivos, a eucalyptus-shaded estate at which the President and Evita passed some of their happiest times, has been drastically rebuilt since Evita's death. Crews of workers added tennis and basketball courts, a swimming pool, open-air theater and riding stables. So that the high-school girls could go to the nearby river beach without crossing a busy street, Peron had a costly tunnel dug. Last week, with most of the alterations completed, President Peron turned the quinta over to the girls for a second clubhouse. "It's too big for a lone man like...
...body, which has lain in a "temporary" resting place these past 15 years, will be borne with ceremonial pomp to a new mausoleum on Ankara's highest hill. The mausoleum, reached by 33 marble steps 132 feet wide, will probably be the biggest of its kind, until Evita Peron's or the proposed Soviet pantheon tops it. For three days, Turkey's 21 million citizens will do him honor...
...later, "but after five minutes you forget he's the President; he's just another man. He was very friendly. Very warm. Very enthusiastic. Very kind. He told me 'Your hands are just like my wife's.' He also said my figure was like Evita...