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...Evita. They were also told that she "got sick because she kissed the ill, the lepers, the consumptives." ¶ Carlos Aloé, super-Peronista governor of Buenos Aires province, fired an employee who refused to wear a black tie. A Buenos Aires youth was arrested for laughing on a streetcar. "Attitudes like this are antisocial," said Aloé. ¶ Eva's political cronies in high office, who stand to retain power if they can keep her memory alive, formed an "Association of Friends of Eva Perón" and asked, "What would Christ have been without his disciples...
...Mexico City were almost sure to be asked last week, "Have you noticed anything about our city that reminds you of Venice?" In parts of the hemisphere's fifth city (pop. 2,234,000), water stood waisthigh. Thousands of working-class houses were flooded; many downtown shops closed; streetcar service was disrupted. Boys and unemployed men picked up welcome pesos transporting pedestrians across riverlike streets. Some of the ferrymen used surplus U.S. Navy life rafts or primitive boats made of packing cases; others, in hip boots or swimming trunks, carried their customers pickaback...
...Yorba Linda, Calif., a small (present pop. 885), citrus-growing town near Los Angeles, to Frank (Scotch-Irish ancestry) and Hannah Milhous Nixon (Irish-English), who migrated from the Middle West to California in their youth, married in 1908, are still hale & hearty. Father worked as streetcar motorman, oilfield worker, rancher, built filling station at Whittier, Calif., later added a grocery store, now known as Nixon's Market and run by Dick's younger brother...
...most remarkable of the Pennsylvania bosses, Boies Penrose, scion of an aristocratic Philadelphia family, a Harvard man who started out writing books like A History of Ground Rents in Philadelphia. He made his political debut at a citizens' protest meeting against Philadelphia's notoriously undependable streetcar lines. The 6 ft. 4 in., 200-lb. political genius went to the legislature, the state senate, the U.S. Senate; he would have run for mayor of Philadelphia if the opposition had not threatened to print a snapshot of Penrose leaving one of the city's better-known brothels. Penrose...
...first report came from Oakland. On the night of Nov. 22, 1896, people on an Alameda streetcar saw a huge "bird-shaped" object with a brilliant light hilts nose. "When first seen," said the Oakland Tribune, "the object seemed to be floating over San Leandro. It shot across the sky in the northwest, then turned quickly and disappeared in the direction of Haywards...