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...slatternly Mexican border town of Tapachula had spruced up for the occasion. At the airport, under a brassy sun, Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho and Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo slapped each other's broad backs in warm Latin embrace. Their wives embraced also (see cut). Never before had Mexico's relations with its southern neighbor been so cordial...
...housewives joined the protest over the petroleum famine. Before Mexico took the oil industry away from its foreign owners in 1938, most Mexicans cooked on charcoal braziers. Then, with sudden oil wealth, the Avila Camacho Government ordered landlords to furnish kerosene stoves. A domestic revolution ensued. Last week Josefina Novarra, 23, stood in a Mexico City kerosene queue and spoke her mind. "Look how we have to stand in line to get a little kerosene for our stoves," she grumbled. "And they want certain kinds of cans or they won't sell you any. Damn the whole Pemex outfit...
...visitors had better ponies but considerably less experience than the white-shirted U.S. veterans. But at any rate, Mexico's polo-playing President Manuel Avila Camacho was satisfied that his hand-picked team of brothers-José, Alejandro, Guillermo and Gabriel Gracida-had been beaten by the best team the U.S. could muster. The scores...
...Avila Camacho had thrown the gates wide: Bellas Artes' marble and stained glass magnificence bulged with some 500 entries; more than 400 of them were paintings. Long halls were devoted to unknowns from all parts of Mexico. Their work ranged from flat, bright-colored primitives and the overfinicky naturalism of Sunday painters to imitations of imitations of the slick stuff produced in Mexico City...
...last week's show, Siqueiros wanted no part of President Avila Camacho's prizes. Said independent Painter Siqueiros: "A competition is for racing horses or fast automobiles. Not for artists...