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First the models gave a private showing to Señora de Avila Camacho, wife of Mexico's President. Then the doors were thrown open to the public. Dresses were priced from $50 to $350, hats from $40. Well-tailored women swooped on the Reforma like seagulls on a herring run. Following the model parade, there was a wild rush to the display room. After three hours of plucking, fitting and haggling, more than one-third of the 15,000 pounds of stock had been sold...
Velasco had been virtually forgotten, even in Mexico, until three years ago. Then President Avila Camacho suddenly declared the painter's work a "national monument." His rediscovery was doubtless hastened by the Western Hemisphere's new cultural self-consciousness and loss of contact with wartime Europe...
Archduke Felix, tall, thin, third-string heir to Austria-Hungary's vanished throne, bobbed up in Mexico City (first Habsburg to visit Mexico since his ancestor, the Emperor Maximilian, was shot there), denied that his visit was political, failed to get audiences with Mexico's President Avila Camacho. Russia's Ambassador Constantine Oumansky departed declaring that if he had his way Spanish would replace German as Austria's national tongue...
...Government of Mexico, where 48% of the population is illiterate, has hit on a brilliantly simple scheme to spread the three Rs: set the literate half to teaching the illiterates. President Avila Camacho issued a decree by radio: let every able-bodied literate aged 18 to 60 prepare to act as the teacher of at least one illiterate aged...
Mexico is on its way to having as many international air routes as the U.S. has railroads. Since stocky, jut-jawed Maximino Avila Camacho (dollarwise brother of President Manuel) became Minister of Communications in 1941, U.S. air lines have been steadily thrusting into Mexico with direct international services, establishing Mexican operating subsidiaries for local routes...