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...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...
...championship cockfight some young bloods showed up to serenade the Señoritas Velandia. Flushed with tender sentiment and wine, they arrived at Casimiro's home with a band. Father Velandia beamed. But it went on & on, without regard for the fighting cocks roosting in a nearby tree. Casimiro grew nervous, then irritated, then thoroughly alarmed over the disturbed rest of his birds. "Stop the music!" he finally ordered. The serenaders refused; they had hired the musicians for the whole evening...
...woman at the door would not take no for an answer. She must see Rosita González de Claro, younger daughter of Chile's President Gabriel González Videla. Finally, the servants let her in. "Señora Rosita," gasped Carmen Rosa Soto de Varas, wife of an Infantry School noncom, "I couldn't get an interview with your father ... Go right away and tell him the military want to overthrow him. I know it because my husband is one of them. He told me the whole thing...
...Mexico City's pulquerias, sad-voiced tenors strummed guitars and sang: "In this year of nineteen hundred and forty-eight a comet appeared in the sky. Have a care, señores, have a care!" Each dawn last week the comet could be seen in the eastern sky, shooting out its long mane of white fire. The tabloid Prensa Gráfica blamed it for the five slight earthquake shocks that rattled the city during the week...