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Last week Strongman Perón unveiled his secretary's handiwork. At a caucus of Peronista delegates in suburban Olivos, he explained his proposals for a solid 2½ hours. From a backdrop, San Martin the Liberator looked out upon the assembly; the shield of Argentina balanced his blown-up portrait. Only once did Perón break off: to introduce la Señora and her grey poodle, Negrita, to the delegates. When the Perón speech was over, most Argentines, well aware that the revisions would be steamrollered through next week's constitutional convention, wondered...
...since he returned from Washington, suave "Ivan" Ivanissevich has proved himself the most versatile of all the men around Perón. He had hardly settled down at home before he had a chance to add a couple of cubits to his considerable stature as a surgeon. Amid blaring Peronista publicity, he took out the President's appendix (TIME, March 15). From surgery he moved to culture, soon became the high priest and top philosopher of Peronism...
...recent election campaign drew from Serb-descended Ivan still further proof of his versatility. One night in Tucumán he dashed off a poem, declaimed it at a Peronista meeting. Set to lively music, it rapidly became the party's official song...
...Peronista boys...
Before he became an able and aggressive labor leader, Cipriano Reyes was a circus tight-rope walker, packinghouse worker and longshoreman. An early Peronista, he helped the president to power, later he broke with Perón. Through his leadership of the small but active Laborista party he turned to fighting Peronista control of labor. From Buenos Aires last week leaked an account of how a man with such savvy and background could be sucked into a futile conspiracy: Perón's police had mousetrapped...