On the streets of Buenos Aires last week the talk was of football and horse races and cattle fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house).
To keep Argentines from noticing Peronista political shenanigans, the government had whooped up the annual celebration of the reconquest of Buenos Aires from...
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