Word: gaucho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranch where Cowboy Euclides worked. After that, the crazy things flew all over the place, diving at his cattle, scaring his pony, and impressing the girls so much that for the first time in Euclides' courting life, the girls had discouraging words for a mere ground-bound gaucho...
...gives a dizzying exhibition of that half-forgotten art, the quick change. He leaves the footlights as Captain Universe, a panicky Superman who wears an aerial on his head, slips out through the curtain again as a clown, dives back to reappear almost instantly as a cross-eyed gaucho, and then-encased in a gown which is snapped around him by a body-hugging steel spring-dodders into view as Queen Victoria...
...simply; they rarely go out at night except to official ceremonies. El Presidente has always been an early riser and hard worker; La Presidenta keeps the same pace. From time to time, they retire briefly to San Vicente, their country place, where Perón likes to put on gaucho's trousers and stroll among his dogs, ostriches and chickens. Evita knocks around in slacks and cooks an occasional omelette...
Private Life. Spent past four years at his 11,959-acre cattle ranch at Itú, where he dressed in gaucho's boots and bombachas, rode the range at least two hours daily. Prefers to spend his time in the company of old friends...
Since his overthrow five years ago by a Brazilian army clique, ex-Dictator Getulio Vargas has lived the quiet life of a gentleman gaucho on his estancia in Rio Grande do Sul. To visitors he spoke of his ranch as "this secluded spot so remote from political agitation." He smoked long cigars, wore a cowboy's bombachas, tended his cattle, and waited...