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Downcast, he takes consolation in politics under the tutelage of a wonderful figure of fun, an editorial bull-roarer called Camacho, from whose lips "anathemas were springing . . . as from the lips of Isaiah; the triumphal palms were turning green in his hands. Every gesture seemed a principle. When he opened his arms, striking the air, it was as though an entire program were unfolding." Rubião, the gullible incomepoop, throws good money after bad journalism, and begins to dream of a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...
...spent lavishly. Among his dams were grandiose, TVA-type projects, among his schools was a $25 million University City (TIME, Feb. 23). For Alemán and his friends, the biggest was best for Mexico-and for themselves. They remembered well the maxim of President Manuel Avila Camacho's brother: "If you build a road for 75,000 pesos and pocket 1,000, everybody will howl. But if you build a road for 75 million pesos and knock Dack a million, nobody will notice...
...paid a gentleman than to call him "very manly." But Alemán and his pals got going so fast in their dizzy ride that the elder statesmen of the party decided things were getting out of hand. In Mexican politics, such former Presidents as Manuel Avila Camacho, and the enigmatic Lázaro Cárdenas, holed up in his western mountains, exercise great power in the background. When the time came to choose Alemán's successor, the party leaders did not interfere with Alemán's right to pick him. But they warned...
Edward J. MrKonich, who was arrested with Stern in Somerville two weeks ago, was acquitted Julio Camacho had identified the voices of the two students, as those who had called his home several times during the past few months and made insulting remarks to his wife and daughter...
...Camacho claims that the voices of the two are the same as the voices of two of the men who had been calling them. She also identified the police captain's voice as the third, however...