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...since King George and Queen Elizabeth came over from England in 1939 had the U.S. given a foreign visitor such a bang-up welcome. Miguel Alemán, president of Mexico, got the works-and liked...
...State Department had worried plenty about Alemán's reception (TIME May 5). But within a few hours after he landed at Washington's National Airport, the State Department could loosen its proto-collar...
Grand Guy. The big viva was far from being synthetic. President Alemán, tanned and affable, carried with him a kind of movie-star glamor. He smiled a big, beaming smile, waved boyishly at the crowds. People liked him-especially the girls. "He's cute," they said...
...Miguel Alemán the new week began like all others. As soon as he woke, he stretched out his hand, and a servant put a big glass of orange juice in his groping fingers. The President propped himself up in bed, and looked around. Senate President Carlos Serrano, his close friend and political G2, was already there. So was potbellied General Antonio Grijales, chief of Mexico City's police. El Presidents downed the orange juice, swung out of bed, and touched his toes ten times without bending his knees, while he listened to the two men talk...
...When a delegation of Mexico City streetcar men visited him, he gave them a 7? daily wage increase. Indignant sugarcane workers tramped into his paneled office, complained that the unions in their industry were fighting among themselves. Alemán promised to look into...