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...months both candidates had chugged up & down the broad boot of Mexico. From the choking desert of upper Sonora to the Mayan tombs of Yucatán, they had harangued enthusiastic, tamale-bolting, beer-guzzling crowds. Because Miguel Alemán was backed by the big Government machine, which had more beer, his crowds were largest. But the peons genuinely approved his promises of sensible, moderate continuation of the revolutionary ideal. And local businessmen, with whom he held long, earnest round-table conferences on regional affairs, believed in his determination to forge today's great Latin dream-industrialization...
...courtyard's dust swirls, a grey Brahmin bull had Viva Alemán charcoaled on its sides. Above, in the open galleries, fiery Oaxaca mole, beans, hot tortillas, lemon pop covered the long tables at which the dusty, sweating politicos ate greedily. A four-piece band played...
Latest beneficiary of Alemán's thoughtfulness : Leonora Amar, a full-lipped, companionable, young Brazilian actress, whom U.S. taxpatriate A. C. "Blumey" Blumenthal brought around. Alemán boosted Senhorita Amar to stardom in Mexican films...
...Charmer. Alemán knows how to win men and charm women. To President Avila Camacho's wholesome, good-hearted wife, Soledad, who shows him a motherly fondness, Alemán owes many a political debt. Señora de Avila Camacho once defined the official line toward Alemán by stating at dinner: "There will be no criticism of Miguelito in this house...
...good, ripe age of 43 and the presidency approach, Alemán has tempered, mellowed. When not campaigning, he spends his evenings quietly with political allies or at his spacious Mexico City home, listening to classical recordings with his pleasant wife and young daughter. Weekends, he is in summery Cuernavaca, golfing, visiting friends like Swedish Industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren (U.S. black-listed), gazing wryly at the neighboring home of Oppositionist Candidate and ex-Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla...