Word: evitas
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...kind of sweeping percentage that strong-man regimes commonly drum up. Peron, in fact, had not seemed to be trying during the campaign. After taking a leave of absence from office to barnstorm for an overwhelming victory, he canceled all such plans when tiis wife Evita fell gravely ill. Sticking lose to Evita's bedside, he made only four radio campaign speeches...
...sooner had the speech been broadcast than plans were changed again. Evita Perón, reportedly suffering from leukemia, was taken to the hospital for treatment and possibly to undergo surgery for a condition variously rumored in Buenos Aires to be an ulceration or a tumor. Perón announced that he would cancel all public appearances to be at his wife's bedside. Peronista Party branches in the capital also suspended public meetings...
...only real campaign gesture of the week from the big Perónista machine was a speech by Evita herself. From her sickbed at the presidential residence, she made a tearful radio appeal to women to vote for her husband. Once again she broke down, as she regretted that she could not join in the fight. It was officially announced from the palace, after Dr. George Pack, a New York cancer surgeon, flew to Buenos Aires for a day's consultation, that Evita's doctors would wait a further ten days to decide whether an operation was indicated...
Then the President, following his six-year custom, proclaimed that the next day would be a holiday. It would be called "St. Evita...
...made her dramatic appearance in defiance of doctors' orders. The official press had already announced that she would soon submit to an operation-the first hint that she was suffering from more than anemia. At week's end it was reported that one of Evita's doctors had flown to New York to fetch the specialist who would perform the operation...