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...Foreign Minister and onetime heir-apparent to his brother-in-law, Francisco Franco, rose with leisurely languor from a red velvet couch, adjusted his gray silk tie, sauntered into his studio to receive the unexpected callers. Solemn of mien, in dark blue suits and black ties, the two señors coldly declined to sit. One thrust forward a blue-bound book with the bright yellow title-Press Mission in Spain. "Have you seen this book?" he asked with menace in his tone...
...President and la Señora had gone to their country place at nearby San Vicente, but the President got little rest. Official callers, high among them War Minister Sosa Molina, kept him so busy that he failed to make his scheduled address of welcome to the Inter-American Travel Congress, and sent no regrets for his absence. Without newspapers to give the reason for this strange behavior, rumor-fed Argentines began to talk ominously of political change...
...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...
...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...