Word: se
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proof. Miel Asquia waved a paper at them. A reporter from Noticias Graficas grabbed it, examined it minutely. Sure enough, it carried the names of such party stalwarts as Mercante, Hector Campora, chief of the capital's Peronistas, and Miel Asquia himself. Every newspaper in Buenos Aires, including Señora Perón's Democracia, reported that Article 77, which forbids two successive terms for Presidents, would go unchanged...
...year, and spends only seven months a year in his Manhattan office. The rest of the time he travels, on expense account, around the U.S. and Europe, picking up ideas. At home, on Park Avenue, he and his Czech-born wife Marie Thérèse, who speaks seven languages, entertain a babbling stream of foreign authors and artists, who are also tapped for ideas...
...Evita Peron knew a good chance when she saw one. The letter on her desk, addressed to Agustin Americo Merlo of Argentina's Washington embassy staff, was a routine solicitation from the capital's Children's Society, Inc. for a contribution for needy Washington children. Smart Señior Merlo had got the society's O.K. to send the request to Buenos Aires for Evita to peruse...
...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 what all the fuss had been about...
...Señora gets her share of praise, too. "Thanks to Señora Perón," he said recently, "more than 600,000 schoolchildren now have clothes, good food, books and games." As Secretary of Education, Ivan himself has shepherded 300,000 schoolchildren on "useful vacations" designed to get them better acquainted with their own country...