Buenos Aires' Calle Florida was no longer the avenue of the gay, the chic and the gallant. It had become the battle place of the republic.
For several weeks the Peronistas had had the run of the street. Three or four of their newsboys, accompanied by armed bodyguards, would parade the sidewalks, hawking the Nationalist Alianza, while their escorts ripped democratic emblems off the lapels of passersby. Last week the democrats were striking back. In brief, quick-breaking scrimmages they gave at least as good as they got, bloodied many a bully-boy's nose...
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