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Aires' Government House, Pern shouted: "This newspaper, which for so many years exploited the workers and the poor, which was a refined instrument serving national and international exploiters in the crudest treason to our country-this newspaper shall make up for its crimes by serving the workers and defending their gains and rights. This has been done by the free and sovereign decision of the Argentine people...
...Though Pern operates a state essentially modeled on the classic Nazi-Fascist pattern, his regime is different in one other major respect. The handsome, strapping six-footer, whose athletic figure now sags just a bit with the weight of middle age (55), does not govern alone. Beside him rules his glittering wife Evita, a 5 ft. 2, pale-skinned, dark-eyed, dazzling blonde of 32. Their man & wife dictatorship has few precedents. Some have compared it with the dual reign of Spain's Ferdinand & Isabella. Perhaps a closer parallel in history was established by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian...
...Good Guesser. While the police stood by passively and the army held back, they took control of the city. Toward evening a car fetched Perón from the hospital. Finally, Pern and President Farrell appeared together on the palace balcony. The crowd roared. An afternoon newspaper had printed pictures of the demonstrators sneeringly titled: "The shirtless ones [descamisados] who roam our streets." Now Perón caught up the sneer as a weapon, shouted that he wanted to clasp all such descamisados to his bosom. Ever since, Peronistas have celebrated the day of the descamisados' loyalty...
Manuel Prade, President of the Republic of Pern will spend two hours of his one-day visit to Boston tomorrow in visiting the University, officials announced yesterday. He will be accompanied by several distinguished Peruvian officials; Military and Naval Aides; R. Henry Norweb '16, the American Ambassador to Pern; and his son, Manuel I. Prade...
Inventor Farnsworth had still to prove that his ideas worked. For twelve years he labored in San Francisco and Philadelphia laboratories-watched over by his pretty wife, Pern, who saw to it that he did not forget to eat while building his complex equipment. By 1930 the world of science admitted his theories on television were practical...