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...Hungary. He was a successful lawyer as well as a successful politician. (When he was appointed Foreign Minister in 1940 he registered his personal wealth-as the law requires-as $105,000.) His wife by his second marriage comes from a wealthy family. His home is at 84 Avenida Jalisco near the suburban heights of Chapultepec Park. He is today, not only a statesman, but a man of the world, popular in Mexican society...
...Sixteen of the 20 Latin American Republics celebrated the birthday. Costa Rica named a street in San Jose Avenida Roosevelt...
...clean space. The Quinquelas finally went to the parish priest about it. The priest bought the boy drawing materials, told him to make his drawings on paper instead. Quinquela Martín, completely self-taught, became renowned throughout La Boca for his drawings; his reputation spread to the smart Avenida Alvear...
Instantly the streets were silent. Traffic halted, pedestrians stood still, blankly staring. In the Avenida Juárez a beer sign clattered to the sidewalk. The twin towers of the cathedral swayed gently, and their bells tinkled as if. touched softly by the hand of God. Cracks crept across the pavements, windows rattled...
...hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the streets, belching a black column from its smokestack. Mexico's tallest skyscraper, a nearly completed, 17-story office building at the corner of the handsome Paseo de la Reforma and the Avenida del Ejido, shook and cracked as the city rocked. A five-story section of glass and facing stone collapsed, sent rubble crashing down on the sidewalk...