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Those who peopled the two worlds had little in common. The porteños (people of the port) were accustomed of an evening to squeeze themselves into giant teahouses and chrome-and-glass movie palaces. The peón of the "camp," working for his keep and a little more...
For Peón & Porfeño. As Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare, Perón went about getting the backing of both peón and porteño. He upped peónes' wages to as much as $30 a month, guaranteed them a two-hour...
The porteño was a tougher nut to crack -and much more important. Because it holds roughly a quarter of the nation's populace (14,000,000) and 75% of its industry, Buenos Aires is the tail that wags the Argentine dog.
For the porteño Perón upped wages an average 10%-20% (the cost of living rose more), rolled back rents and clothing costs 10%. Few of Buenos Aires' old-line, socialist-controlled workers went into the Perón camp. But on the poorest fringe, Per...
After eight months of research she carried thousands of notes home to La Porte, Ind., and went back to her job as professor of history at Baltimore's Goucher College. Soon came a letter from home: the house had caught fire and all her notes were burned.