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...Humberto Maglioli, in a Ferrari, roared past Bonetto's body (still strapped to the driver's seat) to take the lap in a record 115.4 m.p.h. On the next lap, the course levels out and straightens, and from Durango to the Rio Grande, through Parral and Chihuahua, Driver Maglioli demonstrated the superb straightaway speed that was built into his Ferrari. Over the final 222.5 miles he set his third straight lap record-138.4 m.p.h.-one of the fastest sustained road-race averages ever recorded. But it was not enough to overcome the leads that the Lancias had built...
Clean Hands. Much credit for Pemex' transformation belongs to hard-driving Antonio Bermudez, the millionaire whisky distiller from Chihuahua whom Aleman. drafted to boss the show in 1946. Apparently contemplating retirement last week, Bermudez said: "I have handled over 9 billion pesos, and have the right to say my conscience and my hands are clean." Many Mexicans, convinced that only Bermudez keeps Pemex from ruin by political grafters and grifters. hope that he will be asked to stay on. In Bermudez' office sits a life-size bust of President-elect Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, but all Bermudez says...
...Because The Wonderful Country is an honest book written with obvious care and even reserved passion, it is easy to respect it and wait with interest for No. 3. Lea's wonderful country is, of course, the Southwest, in particular "where Texas and New Mexico meet Chihuahua and Sonora." The time is a few years after the Civil War, and the hero is a young gun-toter named Martin Brady, who has expatriated himself to Mexico for a good reason: at 14 he killed a man back in Texas. Brady is more Mexican than gringo now, a hard, quiet...
Martin believes "a man should go where he belongs." We are happy to say that be finally does go where he belongs--Taxes, of course. First he has to pull a few fast ones on his old patron, the governor of Chihuahua, and beat up come poor old Apaches who are "terrorizing" the countryside...
Last of the liberty-loving U.S. celebrities to turn up in Cuernavaca was Musi-comedienne Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman. She blew into town just as the divorce gates were closing. But a local official in Juarez, a quick-divorce city in Chihuahua on the Rio Grande, came to the rescue. He assured her by telephone that she would be welcome in Juarez and would get "prompt and satisfactory service." So Ethel went to Juarez, and found that the service there was still prompt indeed; within 48 hours she had a divorce from Hearst Executive Robert D. Levitt...