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...Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). The delegates plumped for votes for women, and did not laugh out loud when the outgoing president called for a "crusade against corruption." The climax came when Vicente Lombardo Toledano, famed, currently anti-American, pro-leftist labor leader, gave the nominating speech for Miguel Aleman as the party's presidential candidate in the July 7 elections. Lombardo Toledano denounced the opposition candidate, idealistic Ezequiel Padilla, as a "pimp...
Lombardo Toledano's tribute to Conservative Aleman, ex-Minister of the Interior, was a piece of conspicuous hypocrisy. The two are no friends: Aleman had hoped to shake Lombardo Toledano. But because Lombardo Toledano liked to be with a winner, and because Aleman needed radical support, the hypocrisy would continue. Aleman would be boss and the party's trend to the right would continue...
...That Padilla would win the popular vote but that the Chamber of Deputies, which counts the vote and is dominated by the self-perpetuating P.R.M. (Revolutionary Party), would declare P.R.M.-sponsored Miguel Aleman the President after next July's election...
Last week La Bamba was heading north. Bandleader Hoagland broadcast the melody nightly to the U.S. Mexico's playboyish presidential candidate, Miguel Aleman, a native Veracruzano, chose La Bamba for his campaign song, had it played by the faithful as often as the Democrats used to play Happy Days Are Here Again. In Manhattan's Stork Club, publicity-smart Dancemaster Arthur Murray last week gave U.S. dancers a first look at his version of the Veracruz dance...
Down Mexico City's broad Paseo de la Reforma swept a noisy mob: partisans of Presidential Candidate Miguel Aleman. On their shoulders they bore a black coffin emblazoned in big white letters with the name of former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, new and rival entry in the Mexican Presidential campaign. Before Alemán's mansion headquarters the paraders stopped, lowered the coffin. Then they set it on fire. With elections still ten months away, the shouting had already begun. Said cynical observers of Mexico's politics: the shooting may be expected momentarily...