Word: evitas
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...when Europe was on its uppers, Miranda won dubious fame for his country by charging hungry European countries skyscraping prices for wheat and meat, and using the profits to finance Juan Perón's first five-year plan. Ousted from power in a feud with Evita Perón about the time the terms of trade finally turned against Argentina, Miranda retired to self-imposed exile in Uruguay. But Perón himself never forgot the old trader he had once hailed as "a man with a magic wand that turns everything to gold." Last December, several months...
...advance of the President, Argentina sent a veritable expeditionary force of athletes, trade unionists and government officials to Santiago. A claque of descamisados chanted "Pay-ron, Pay-ron" in their best Buenos Aires manner during Perén's balcony speech. Members of the St. Evita News Vendors' Union of Buenos Aires hawked Peronista emblems, and buttonholed Chilean workers for enthusiastic "missionary" talks about the union swimming pools and apartment houses in the new Argentina. One of the sport stars in the delegation who attracted special attention was Socialite Tennist María Teran Weiss, attractive young widow...
Bucking the Trust. The 20 centavos that Hugo paid for Eva's coffee was the best investment he ever made. A street singer as a child, he had already risen to popularity as a crooning film star. But it was his good standing with Evita Peron that raised him to political power in film and radio circles as head of the actors' union, and enabled him to become the only independent film producer in Argen tina. With Evita's support, he was able to buck the powerful Argentine Film Producers' Association, even though...
...After Evita's death, Apold and Duarte whetted the knife for Del Carril. First they cut off his film supply. Then, a fort night ago, Apold planted a story in the newspaper Critica that spelled the end of Del Carril's artistic career in Argentina...
Under the headline URUGUAYAN GOLD MEANT MORE TO HUGO DEL CARRIL THAN THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE, the scurrilous piece ironically invoked the memory of his patroness Evita to attack him: "Here in Buenos Aires the people trem bling with cold stood in endless columns in the streets, silently paying tribute to their departed benefactress. There in Montevideo Hugo del Carril expressed his indifference to the national pain and man ifested the crudest monetary greed by continuing to sing from July 27 to Au gust 8 ..." Hushing the Truck. The story was not true: Del Carril had returned to Buenos...