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...EVITA: FIRST LADY by John Barnes Grove; 195 pages...
...farmer's son. Evita, as the crowd called her, was a third-rate actress with first-rate street smarts who worked her way up from the casting couch to the Pink House, the traditional seat of Argentina's First Family. When she died in 1952 of cancer at the age of 33, the bereaved descamisados sought to have her canonized. The Vatican diplomatically declined, suggesting that her good works were basically secular...
...clinch a $100 million railroad-car contract for the Dutch firm Werkspoor. The bribe, which was authorized by the Dutch State Bank and approved by the government, also included the gift of a deluxe presidential train for el Lider and $12,000 in jewelry for his second wife, Evita...
...Evita, worshiped by the masses as the "little Madonna," bolstered Perón's popularity. She was head of the Eva Perón Foundation, a lightly audited charity that she used to pass $100 million annually to the poor. After she died of cancer in 1952 at age 33, Argentines petitioned the Vatican to canonize her. Although Rome refused, a secular cult has formed to revere her memory; it is still going strong...
...Like Evita, Isabelita wears her hair in a bun and has courted the trade unions...