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...into congress when the man for whom he was an alternate died. In 1936, he stepped into the governorship of his native Vera Cruz when the governor-elect was assassinated. His chance for the presidency opened last year when death came to Maximino, brother of President Manuel Avila Camacho, and Alemán's chief political enemy...
...proudest village in Mexico last week was tiny Soledad Etla (pop. 1,200) in Oaxaca State. President Manuel Avila Camacho had just given it a handsome new flag. In one year every one of Soledad Etla's 470 illiterates had learned to read & write...
...this is part of a whirlwind campaign begun in 1944 by President Avila Camacho and his tireless, able Education Minister Jaime Torres Bodet. They reasoned that Mexico could cure its biggest problem-48% illiteracy*-within a year if "each one taught one." To rope in the illiterates the Department of Irrigation offered free corn to anyone attending its classes. A special stamp issue was put out to help pay for 4,000,000 Government-issued primers. One illiterate old Indian chief solemnly promised Minister Bodet to make the people of his village literate even if he had to kill...
...this time Lombardo Toledano had gone too far. When he failed to back up his charges, Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho publicly disavowed him. There had been no "Yankee intervention...
Saint Theresa of Avila, "the Saint of Ecstasy," divided her existence equally between earthly toil and divine rapture. Her strenuous earthly labors led to her founding of the order of Discalced Carmelites; her ecstatic transports made her _one of the world's great mystic poets. Half genius of the supernatural, half militant nun, Theresa's gifts to posterity have become part of "the inalienable possessions of mankind...