Word: ezequiel
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Down Mexico City's broad Paseo de la Reforma swept a noisy mob: partisans of Presidential Candidate Miguel Aleman. On their shoulders they bore a black coffin emblazoned in big white letters with the name of former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, new and rival entry in the Mexican Presidential campaign. Before Alemán's mansion headquarters the paraders stopped, lowered the coffin. Then they set it on fire. With elections still ten months away, the shouting had already begun. Said cynical observers of Mexico's politics: the shooting may be expected momentarily...
...Stalwart Ezequiel Padilla, Mexico's Foreign Minister since 1940, resigned last week as the result of a campaign of backstage intrigue and a storm of public criticism. Rivals within the Mexican foreign service, notably Francisco Castillo Najera, Ambassador to the U.S., had long been gunning for 6-ft., spruce Ezequiel, sometimes called "the black Narcissus" because of his darkish skin and elegant attire. Other political opponents may have undermined him with President Avila Camacho, hoping to head him off as a candidate in next year's presidential election...
...Bullock & Jones, Mme. T. V. Soong bought silk dressing gowns for T.V. and other men of the family. France's Admiral Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu* shopped in Gump's lush Mandarin Room. Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla went to the same famed Post Street store to get Mexican silver plates, gifts for the American delegation. Brazil's Carlos Martins pounced on cocktail sets and identification bracelets at jewelers like Shreve...
...Latins. Scholarly, sincere Foreign Minister Jose Serrato of Uruguay delivered one of the finest speeches of the conference. Mexico's bright, aggressive Ezequiel Paditta worked well with Rockefeller, as did Cuba's Guillermo Belt Ramirez, whose ancestors came from Beltsville...
...Latin Americans, keeping close to Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Rockefeller, hoped to swing some small changes in Dumbarton Oaks. Big guns were Mexico's suave Foreign Minister, Ezequiel Padilla, Chile's Joaquin Fernandez y Fernandez, and Brazil's Pedro Leāo Velloso. who brought along his imposing wife...