Word: evitas
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...keeping vigil outside the presidential residence in Buenos Aires saw what they were watching for: a dim light in a second-floor room snapped out. Inside the darkened chamber, President Juan Perón walked away from the bedside of his wife. To waiting cabinet ministers he said, heavily, "Evita is dead...
Next day, a black van brought Evita's silver-trimmed cedar casket to the triangular Ministry of Labor building, where her body was laid in state in the gold-domed room she used as an office during her rise to power. While the casket was placed in a huge horseshoe of mauve and white orchids, Peronistas gathered outside until finally there were half a million of them; four were killed, 2,500 injured in the crush. At length the ministry's doors were opened, and the grieving mob poured in to peer through the casket's full...
...scramble to pay the most eloquent tribute to ailing Evita Perón became a feverish rush last week. The Peronista majority in Congress voted to build a monument to her. The governor of Buenos Aires Province ordered her autobiography, The Reason for My Life, used as a textbook in all the province's public schools. Health Minister Ramón Carillo directed that in 508 hospitals and clinics under his department Masses be said for her "quick and complete recovery...
...Congress, after delivering an impassioned speech in praise of Evita, Peronista Deputy Mafalda Piovano dropped on her knees in the aisle and prayed: "Oh God, we beseech You to return to Eva Perón the health she has sacrificed to save us." Fellow members raised their bowed heads just in time to see the Congresswoman rise shakily to her feet, then faint dead away. In the solemnity of the hour, President of the Chamber Hector J. Cāmpora led the 124 Peronista deputies in swearing loyalty to Perón as President and to Evita as "Spiritual Chief...
...Evita appeared to have reached a crisis in her long illness. Early last week word leaked out of the presidential residence in Olivos that she was being fed intravenously. Toward week's end she was reported slightly improved. But at the Avenida de Mayo headquarters of the sub-Secretary of Information, lights burned all night. Inside, a special watch of five reporters anxiously awaited news of any change in the First Lady's health...