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Exaggeration? Hyperbole? L??se-majesté? Not really, for these newer creations are merely variations, updated for life in the '70s, of the kind of durable, reliable characters an older generation of stars created. They are people who suggest simply by their changeless presences that there may be traditions and behavioral conventions that one can rely on in a pinch...
Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined up eight abreast for miles in a warm winter rain outside the Congress Hall where the body of el L??der (see following story) lay in state in the Blue Chamber. They waited for up to 24 hours for a glimpse of his body clad in army uniform, medals and sash of office. Many fainted from emotion or exhaustion. Government aid stations treated no fewer than 17,800 people as the original one day of viewing was extended to two because of the miles-long crowd...
...person already suspected of trying to become the power behind the throne is Minister of Social Welfare José L??pez Rega, 54, who was Perón's private secretary and astrologer in exile. L??pez Rega stood prominently behind Isabelita each time she addressed the nation on television last week, and except for her, he was the only Cabinet member to make a TV speech after Perón's death. Radical leftist Peronists despise the ultra-conservative L??pez Rega and have threatened to assassinate him. Last week, in a warning aimed at him, the leader of the radical leftist...
...most famous contemporary figure. His erratic career took him from obscurity to the peak of power, to exile and then to one of this century's most remarkable political comebacks. Through it all, Juan Domingo Perón remained his country's symbol of national unity. He was el L??der, the caudillo who held out the perennial promise that the feuding privileged and underprivileged of Argentina would one day coalesce and turn their richly endowed country into the leading nation of South America. When he died last week that promise remained unfulfilled...
...lover had deserted her before the child's birth, Herbert Karl and his mother lived as boarders in the home of a chauffeur whose own wife had little patience with the child. Perhaps to compensate for his unhappy circumstances, the boy excelled at school, winning a scholarship to the L??beck gymnasium, and developed an abiding interest in politics. Because of his lower-class