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...María was a perennial president of Argentina's Sociedad de Beneficencia, a sort of community chest which supported most of the nation's hospitals, homes for the aged and orphan asylums. But when the Peróns came to power, Argentine charity became a political matter and a virtual monopoly of the First Lady. The high-born oligarcas of the Beneficencia pointedly refrained from inviting Evita to become their honorary president; Evita retaliated by virtually running them out of business...
Three weeks ago, Doña María died, aged 88. Her family and friends gathered for the funeral at the handsome, Byzantine-style church of Santa Rosa de Lima, which Doña María had built, and where her husband is entombed. Her body was to be placed beside his. Just before the ceremony, a messenger arrived from City Hall to remind church authorities that an old sanitary ordinance forbade burial except in cemeteries. The priests protested that they had long since gotten a special dispensation from the municipality to put Doña Mar...
...their wealth, Doña María's family owned no suitable cemetery plot in Buenos Aires, and were forced to borrow a vault temporarily. Last week they were still looking for a permanent resting place for Doña Mar...
Officials of the museum accepted the scroll yesterday from its owner, Mar Athanasius Y. Samuel, Metropolitan of Jerusalem and Hashemite Jordan. The conservation department will now spend several days making a preliminary examination...
...holiday season came to subequatorial South America on the crest of a blistering heat wave. In Santiago, Chileans sipping their traditional cola de mono (monkey's tail-milk, cinnamon, and coffee laced with aguardiente), fanned themselves as the thermometer climbed to 93°. At Viña del Mar and Uruguay's Punta del Este, beaches were jammed. So was the graceful white curve of Rio's Copacabana, where young cariocas, lampooning a recently revived city ordinance against walking to the beach in bathing suits, donned dinner coats or silver-fox jackets over their beachwear...