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...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 of the Nation," the title by which she has been formally listed in Argentina's Congressional Record since her last public appearance-at her husband...
Mermaids & Indians. Early this year, Colombian-born Hector Robert Acebes Medina organized a small expedition to find the source of the Orinoco all over again and study Indian tribes along the way. According to Acebes, he was within 100 miles of his goal when Venezuelan authorities chased him back to San Felipe in Colombia. He had studied the Indians, and had seen, so he said, some toninas -strange mermaidlike mammals with breasts like a woman's and the strength to defeat alligators in aquatic battle. But he was not permitted to re-enter Venezuela and continue his travels...
...last week Princeton grads were earnestly stacking Kazmaier up against Old Nassau's football immortals-Garry LeVan, Jake Slagle, San White, Hector Cowan and Edgar Allan Poe, quarterback on the '89 team.- Undergraduates, howling gleefully in the stands, were comparing Kazmaier to players they had never seen-Tommy Harmon, Red Grange, Chris Cagle. On the record, Kaz ranks with the best of today's amateurs: Tennessee's Hank Lauricella, Illinois' Johnny Karras, Southern California's Frank Gifford. And on the record, for the second year in a row, he is an inevitable choice...
...CENTURY OF BRITISH MONARCHY (274 pp.)-Hector Bolitho-Longmans, Green...
When Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in 1851, she was one of 20 reigning European sovereigns. The number has now dropped to seven,* but, as Hector Bolitho says in A Century of British Monarchy, "the influence of the monarchy in Britain [has] remained as strong as ever." Bolitho looks for the sources of this strength and finds a big one in the energetic character of the royal family itself...