Word: aleman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mexican journalism was shaken by a minor drama. The leading characters: Jose Pages Llegro. talented founder and editor of Mexico's leading weekly Hoy; Beatriz Aleman de Giron. only daughter of ex-President Aleman: and a remarkable Parisian nightclub dancer...
...long ago. Beatriz and her husband. Lawyer Carlos Giron. were relaxing in a Paris nightclub when an enterprising photographer caught them gazing at one of the performers (see cut). While papa Aleman was off touring the Iron Curtain countries (see below), the picture reached Editor Pages. Unlike most Mexican editors, Pages is less interested in pleasing bigwigs than in printing what he considers interesting copy. He gave the picture from Paris a full-page spread. As soon as the magazine hit the newsstands, a storm broke over Editor Pages' head...
...objection was not so much that he had printed a picture of a girl with no clothes on, but that the picture included the convent-educated daughter of Miguel Aleman, who still has a lot of influential friends in Mexico. For years, Mexican publications had hardly printed anything but carefully posed shots of the Aleman family, and ignored the President's lively interest in a succession of actresses and other beauties. Hoy's publisher rapped Editor Pages sharply over the knuckles, told him not to be naughty again. Pages promptly resigned. Six other staff members also quit, including...
After retiring from office last December, ex-President Miguel Aleman wound up some of his more pressing personal affairs in Mexico City and went off to relax under the pleasure domes of Paris. As General Leon Osorio began shooting off charges back home that his administration had siphoned off about 7 billion pesos ($800 million) of public funds, some observers in Mexico City suggested that Aleman had retired to Europe for substantially the same reason his good friend Bill O'Dwyer had settled down in Mexico...
Last month, the rainy season over, Dr. Ruz got a grant from Mexico's retiring President Miguel Aleman, and hurried back to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,where he pitched camp in the jungle near Palenque. With Assistant César Saenz he descended the 59 steps to the altar room. Carefully the diggers drilled a hole in the side of the stone block. As Dr. Ruz suspected, it was hollow. Next morning the men came back with truck jacks, wedged them under the protruding edges of the slab that topped the altar. All day and all night they worked...