While Argentina's Ramirez Government went its lone unneighborly way, the Argentine's longtime Ambassador to the U.S., suave Don Felipe Alberto Espil, remained a Good Neighbor. He and his Chicago-raised Señora had made the red-carpeted Argentine Embassy a model of diplomacy. Last week Buenos Aires called them home.
Señor. Ambassador Espil, 56, is sometimes called the "Mona Lisa of the Pam pas" for his thought-concealing smile. He first came to the U.S. in 1919 as first secretary to the Embassy, London-tailored, expert at the tango, an escort of Wallis Spencer years before she became the Duchess of Windsor. But Don Felipe was no...
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