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After the election came carnival. Posters blaring announcements of fiesta dances encroached on the tattered billboard images of Perón and Tamborini. Argentines who could afford it rushed off to the villas and casino of Mar del Plata. Yet Argentina, recovering slowly from the calmest election day-and bitterest campaign-in its history, was hardly in a carnival mood. It was still dazed. Juan Pueblo, the man on the Buenos Aires street corner, contemplating the strange, post-election calm, said "Parece raro-Seems funny...
...Hockey Varsity West Point at West point Hockey JayVee Exeter at Exeter Track JayVee Andover at Andover Swimming Varsity U. of Connecticut 3:00 Wed. Feb. 27 Basketball Varsity Chelsea Naval Hospital 7:30 Basketball JayVee Milton Academy at Milton 3:15 Thur. Feb. 28 Squash Varsity M.I.T. Sat. Mar. 2 Basketball Varsity New Hampshire at Durham 7:45 Basketball JayVee Boston University Wrestling Varsity Wesleyan Thur. Mar. 7 Squash Varsity Harvard Club Sat. Mar. 9 Swimming JayVee St. George School Thur. Mar. 14 Squash Varsity Milton Club at Milton Sat. Mar. 16 Swimming Varsity Yale at New Haven Squash...
...Argentina, the rich got the word. At pre-arranged H-hour, in a Mar del Plata casino, anti-Perón playboys and playgirls rose from the Government-run roulette wheels, started to march out. Perón's police, hurling tear gas, unrelentingly forced them back to the tables...
Bitten Fruit. Goya found extramural solace with vivacious María Teresa, Duchess of Alba, whose reputation at court was as scandalous as his own. Warned a well-meaning friend: "This particular fruit already has lots of bites in it." But Goya paid no heed. When he saw Teresa, "a tingle of delicious pain hovered at the edge of [his] eyelids." Most of Author White's lively novel is the story of this 20-year attachment...
...King Carol of Rumania and his Madame Lupescu paraded down the mosaic sidewalks that curl along the slim half-moon of Copacabana beach. Tens of thousands of cariocas, impelled by a summer heat wave, dashed into the Atlantic's cool, green breakers. At Argentina's Mar del Plata, the Unzues and the Martinez de Hozes and all the other upper-crusters sunned themselves at private beach clubs, far from the madding crowd, and seldom swam (the water was too cold...