Word: oliva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, Oliva Paz took time off and went to the U.S. on an official mission to buy cars for top brass. In Washington, he saw President Harry Truman, presented him with a handsome gold encrusted bombilla (the gourd from which maté is drunk) on behalf of Perón. When he got back to Buenos Aires, Oliva Paz found Perón's mouth in worse shape than ever. The effects of a bad case of pyorrhea were beginning to show. He lanced the gums, then Perón demanded a specialist...
...Education Oscar Ivanissevich, onetime ambassador to the U.S. and a skilled surgeon, had just the man. He called on Professor Stanley D. Tylman of the University of Illinois, who had just arrived to lecture on crown and bridge processes at the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Tylman was willing. Oliva Paz went along as interpreter. The examination went something like this...
...Oliva Paz (translating): "Although you have one of the worst attacks of pyorrhea I have ever seen, your gums have been very well treated...
...Oliva Paz (still translating): "With the fine treatment you have been getting, your mouth and gums will be all right within a few weeks...
...Oliva Paz was dismissed from the case, Tylman took over. He yanked out the six teeth. President Perón not only liked the job; he liked Tylman. Thereafter Tylman was a regular dinner guest at the presidential residence. When he departed for the U.S. last week, Perón, Eva, Ivanissevich and other high functionaries drove out to Moron airport...