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...last week, as Gallostra sauntered from the Pennsylvania bar to his office in the Reforma's marble-trimmed Casa Latino Americana, he was accosted by two Spanish republican exiles. One was Cuban-born Salvador Fleitas Rouco, an anarchist soldier in the Spanish civil war; the other, Spanish-born Antonio...
...thinking about Pemex. Three days each week he visits oil regions in his DC-3, "El Petrolero"; the rest of the time he works hard in Pemex' pseudo-colonial, four-floor office building on Mexico City's Avenida Juárez. He often dashes over to the Casa Crema for a conference with President Aleman...
...their own, they retaliated. For a whole morning, members of the aggressively leftist Club de Choferes Lázaro Cárdenas (1,200 drivers) invited everybody for free rides. That afternoon they drove en masse to Los Pinos to shout their grievances under the windows of the Casa Crema, Mexico's cream-colored White House, even though President Aleman was out of town. When police discovered that the drivers had no permit for any such demonstration, they arrested 111 drivers for disorderly conduct, brought up tow trucks to haul their cabs away...
Without further ado, the Senate sent its presiding officer, Admiral Alberto Tessaire, off to the Casa Rosada to plead with the President. When this failed, the Senators marched in a body to his residence to renew their plea. This time he was ready with a little speech. "Ethics," he told them, "must be above law. President Peron and General Peron are inseparable. In no instance will I as President sign a promotion for General Peron...
...formal presentation at the Casa Rosada last week, Sylvia was accompanied by Ambassador Griffis and his second in command, Lester Mallory. While the dogs made friends, Evita expressed her thanks and leveled a gay shaft at Grass Widower Griffis.* "Now that you have found a wife for Tambour," she smiled archly, "I shall have to find you a wife among our descamisadas...