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...different President who has embarked on nothing less than a wholesale program for cleaning up Mexico. This revolutionary President is a slight, grey, austere man named Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, who took office last December at 61, the oldest man to become Mexican President since Porfirio Díaz fell...
...Valdés (his mother's family name) he took off from New York on a Pan-American Stratocruiser for Paris. He was accompanied by five companions, of whom Mexico City papers named only such notables as Carlos Serrano, ex-president of the Senate, and Antonio Díaz Lombardo, former director of social security and one of the new millionaires of the Alemán administration. Within a few hours the capital buzzed with another name. According to the passenger manifest, it was that of Alemán's great and enduring friend, Brazilian Actress Leonora Amar...
...Spanish. With pictures or the actual objects involved, he engaged the children in increasingly fluent chats about such commonplaces as food, animals, colors, clothing and toys. To measure progress, Rivera, showing a drawing of a man, would say: "¿Esta es una madre?" Or sometimes he asked: "¿Servimos azúcar en los huevos?" (Shall we serve sugar on the eggs?). If anyone replied yes, Rivera would backtrack on the "lesson...
...There are three or four portraits in existence with some claim to having been painted in Cortés lifetime. Bernal Díaz del Castillo described him around 1568 as being "of a good height and body and well proportioned . . . His chest was high and his back of a good shape, and he was lean and of little belly...
Setting out to sweep all this away, Minister Díaz, a onetime journalist, earned himself a mocking nickname from the press: Lomberto el Terrible. Thundered Lomberto, undeterred: "If the criminal elements and the women victims they live off don't get out, I'll cut off their light and water, pack their furniture off to a city warehouse and jail any stragglers. We'll show them no mercy." His eviction tactics worked. By week's end, all but a corporal's guard of the women and their flashily dressed chulos (pimps) had pulled...