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Unguarded and alone, the President of Mexico strolled out of the hot sunshine of Mexico City's Avenida Madero into the cool interior of the High Life Men's Store. At the counter, Manager Roberto Bloch absently said: "Yes?" Then he took another look at his customer and gasped: "Yes, Mr. President...
...Avenida Ejercito Nacional, stretching out through Mexico City's glittery west side suburbs, is tree-shaded and quiet. One afternoon last week its peace dissolved in sounds familiar to every North American -the scream of braked tires, the clatter and bang of a rear-end collision. A sleek new Oldsmobile, with a pretty girl at the wheel, had smashed into a new Buick...
Except for the girl's soft sobbing, Avenida Ejercito Nacional was quiet again...
...Battle. What next? The Communists would fight their ban. In a 15th-floor office on Rio's main-stem Avenida Rio Branco, moon-faced Communist Lawyer Sinval Palmeira clutched the multipage appeal he will present to the Supreme Tribunal. He had a diplomatic good word for the Yankees. "The U.S. Constitution," he said, "is helping me to write...
...next step is to try your own advertisement. It must be specific as to your needs, for few apartments have iceboxes or telephones and getting a telephone takes from one to three years. Our ad brought us some leads. The first place we saw was on Avenida Atlantica, hanging right over Copacabana Beach. It was perfect-for midgets. The front room was so small you could light the landlady's cigaret (she sat across the room) without getting up. But size was the least drawback. With the apartment-at $225 a month-went the landlady's grandmother. Grandma...