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Tears seem to be the hallmark of Isabel Perón's troubled presidency. Fourteen months ago, she led Argentina in an emotional period of mourning for her husband and political mentor, Juan Domingo Perón. More recently, her publicly shed tears have become both a sign of her own increasingly fragile physical and emotional condition and an apt acknowledgment of the problems that her erratic rule has brought to her country. A week ago, when she handed over temporary executive power to Italo Luder, Provisional President of the Argentine Senate, she was choking back tears once again...
...here--whom she knew to be unfaithful to her mother, a fact which may have repelled her and attracted her at the same time. But a more obvious parallel to the Regina-Marcus affair would be the relationship Hellman had with her uncle, her first love. When she was fourteen or fifteen he whisked her off impulsively on a fishing trip to the bayou, where he was conducting an affair with a Cajun girl, and when they met again for the first time five years later he tried to convince Hellman to run away with him to South America, which...
...large loans she had made to her husband--the one who was having an affair with a Cajun girl--that she would never communicate with him except through the medium of her son Honey (a slightly off-beat character himself, who tried to rape Hellman when she was fourteen and after several more attempts on various women finally ended up in a Mobile sanitarium): when you know all this, you tend to think that Hellman exercised admirable restraint in her writing...
...overhead luggage racks. Centerfielder Lonnie Smith has his radio pressed against the window, searching through the static for rock music. Up front, Manager Lee Elia stares at the embers of a cigarette as he flicks it to the floor. It will be 2 a.m. before the day ends. Fourteen hours, more than seven of them on the road, for a 1-hr. 58-min. baseball game...
Yovicsin, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, has been director of physical training and recreation since 1970. Before this job, he was head football coach for fourteen years, retiring only after open heart surgery. "He was the winningest coach in Harvard's history." Pittenger said...