Madrid belonged to Evita last week. Not since the welcome to Hekirich Himmler in 1940 had the Franco regime tuned up a reception as thunderous as the one it handed the dashing blonde wife of Argentina's President Juan Perón. Evita drew even larger crowds than had ever turned out for Dictator Franco himself. "Of course," went the explanation, "she's better looking."
The fact was that Madrid's enthusiasm was real, not the synthetic show that Madrilenos are accustomed to giving for Franco. The 200,000 who lined Madrid's floodlit streets on the night of her...
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