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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William E. Tinney Glenmont, N...
Thomas Morrette Tarrytown, N...
...picket-fenced, split-level ranch. With one overriding difference: If you don't like the neighbors, the weather or the garbage collection, you can roll right out. If the parking site at Paw Paw, Mich., palls, if tornadoes threaten Thunderwoman Park in Iowa, if Oso Ridge, N. Mex., turns out soso, there's always another rallying ground down an Interstate. There, for a few dollars a day, the motor-home owner can hook up to a power line, fill water and fuel tanks, flush out the crud and replenish the refrigerator. The new friends come free...
...n was a farmer's son. Evita, as the crowd called her, was a third-rate actress with first-rate street smarts who worked her way up from the casting couch to the Pink House, the traditional seat of Argentina's First Family. When she died in 1952 of cancer at the age of 33, the bereaved descamisados sought to have her canonized. The Vatican diplomatically declined, suggesting that her good works were basically secular...
...also attempted to secure her own future by stuffing a Swiss bank vault with cash and flaunting one of the world's most valuable (and tasteless) collections of jewelry. Eva's death deprived Perón of her much needed political pillow talk. His heavyhandedness and arrogance went unchecked. He foolishly attacked the church and caused outrage by taking a 13-year-old mistress. Later he dismissed criticism of the affair with the remark that he was not superstitious. He lasted until 1955, when the army toppled him in a coup...