Word: evitas
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President Juan Perón, a wide black mourning band on his left sleeve, sat for the first time last week behind Evita's old desk, ready to take up his duties as the new head of the Eva Perón Social Aid Foundation. As always, hundreds of applicants were waiting outside the Ministry of Welfare & Labor to beg favors. Though only a few were admitted, the President was at his smiling best...
Partly because of his added duties as boss of Evita's Social Aid Foundation and her Women's Party (whose presidency he also assumed last week), Perón has been working harder than ever now that he is alone on the job. Each morning he arrives punctually at 6:25 at the door of the Casa Rosada and gives the captain of the guard a hearty handshake before entering the building. By 6:30 he is busy signing papers. Since his wife's death, he has made no public statement, attended no public function...
...Evita is now a legend in the land, Perón is doing his best to make the legend work for him. Men like José Espejo, chief of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), might have made use of the legend for their own purposes were the C.G.T. a real union movement. The fact is, the C.G.T. is a tightly disciplined political party completely dominated by Perón. As a weapon in Perón's hand, the Evita legend can protect him against the enemies of the regime; critics of Perón can be shouted...
...Death of Evita...
...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...