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Ellsworth Bunker, 57, Manhattan businessman (board chairman, National Sugar Refining Co.) who went into the State Department only last year as Ambassador to Argentina, handled himself well enough in Peron's capital to be given a crack at a more important job: to take over Dunn's post in Italy...
...Inflexible Austerity' For six years, under the fumbling administration of Juan and Eva PerÓon, Argentina's historically rich economy has been running down like a much-abused mechanical toy. While the inner clockworks gradually fell apart, Peron's method of dealing with the problem was to shout down all warnings at the top of his voice; only three months ago he looked a group of visiting U.S. Congressmen straight in the eye and told them: "From the economic point of view, Argentina has absolutely no problems...
...prince next popped up in 1940 wearing the uniform of De Gaulle's Free French air force. Soon afterward he went to Argentina, where he teamed with old friend Fritz Mandl, onetime Austrian munitions-maker who had also bet on the wrong fascist. Mandl, now doing business with Peron, put Starhemberg up in style, but the prince yearned for his own acres...
...women met in President Peron's office. "She was elegantly dressed," writes Fleur, "as millions of American women would like to be dressed. The only giveaway was the orchid in her lapel [see cut]. No real flower that, but one of diamonds, larger even than an orchid, about five inches across by seven inches high-a brooch of big, pure white diamonds that must have been worth $250,000. Barrel earclips of diamond baguettes and her ball-like diamond ring were minor accessories by contrast...
...displayed a willingness (later, eagerness) to talk 'girl talk' about clothes, jewelry, coiffure . . . She kept eying the jewel I wore. Peron winked at me and said in his halting English: 'That's one she can't have.' " When Fleur remarked that Evita's hair was "very becoming worn straight and simply, she asked if I would look at pictures of her in the many ways she'd worn it." Big photographs were spread on the floor. Fleur looked them all over and pronounced Evita's latest hairdo her best. "Evita asked...