Word: peronista
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...scramble to pay the most eloquent tribute to ailing Evita Perón became a feverish rush last week. The Peronista majority in Congress voted to build a monument to her. The governor of Buenos Aires Province ordered her autobiography, The Reason for My Life, used as a textbook in all the province's public schools. Health Minister Ramón Carillo directed that in 508 hospitals and clinics under his department Masses be said for her "quick and complete recovery...
...Congress, after delivering an impassioned speech in praise of Evita, Peronista Deputy Mafalda Piovano dropped on her knees in the aisle and prayed: "Oh God, we beseech You to return to Eva Perón the health she has sacrificed to save us." Fellow members raised their bowed heads just in time to see the Congresswoman rise shakily to her feet, then faint dead away. In the solemnity of the hour, President of the Chamber Hector J. Cāmpora led the 124 Peronista deputies in swearing loyalty to Perón as President and to Evita as "Spiritual Chief...
...Congress building, Peron helped his faltering wife into the vice president's chair, then quickly, one hand on the Bible, swore to defend the constitution. Outside, thousands of members of the Peronista Women's Party chanted: "Viva Evita, the vice president!" But Evita slipped away to return to the presidential estate in suburban Olivos. Peron swore in his new cabinet, reviewed a parade of cavalry and foot soldiers (mechanized forces were left in barracks to save gasoline), waved briefly from his balcony to 100,000 cheering descamisados, and hurried to Olivos to be at his wife...
...protested that a new Argentine movie called Barbara Atomica was immoral (TIME, June 2), the government not only refused to ban the film but sent police to make sure that it was shown. Last week, in a new move almost certain to provoke a showdown, some of the new Peronista Women's Party congressional deputies announced a plan to introduce a bill to give Argentina its first divorce...
...country. I pray to God not to let these fools lift their hands against Perón, because, beware, the day they do, I shall march with the women, with the workers and with the shirtless ones, and no brick shall be left standing that is not a Peronista brick...