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...Chile was in the throes of a Congressional election campaign last week. But Chileans had another worry. They had often been warned against the Argentine militarists. Congressman Manuel González Vilches had returned from a trip to Chile's Argentine frontier, where, near Lonquimay in the south, the towering wall of the Andes drops to 4,500 ft. His eyes were bugging...
...time the track opens, Promoter Pagliai hopes every one of its 800 stalls will be filled. Last week 300 horses were already trying out its racing strip - including nine owned by President Camacho, eight owned by Governor Barba González of Jalisco, scores of U.S. racers recently imported from California by Mexican bigwigs. Even ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, who once banned all gambling in Mexico (except the National Lottery), is contemplating a racing stable...
Soft-voiced, sentimental Manuel Avila Camacho, the man of harmony, sat between doddering Ezequiel Chávez and post-reactionary González Martinez. At the same table were ex-Fascist José Vasconcelos, onetime Presidents Pascual Ortiz Rubio (his qualifications for entry: love poems scribbled in youth) and bull-necked Portes Gil. There was almost no talk of politics; the wine and the company prompted sublimer subjects...
Personnel of the Commission: Lieut. General Stanley Dunbar Embick, 65, in World War I Chief of Staff of the U.S. section of the Supreme Allied War Council, onetime Deputy Chief of Staff, also a member of the Canadian-U.S. Joint Defense Board; Brigadier General Miguel S. González Cadena, 50, onetime Chief of the Mexican Cavalry, Navy and Air Force; Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, 65, onetime commander of the U.S. Atlantic Squadron; Brigadier General Tomás Sánchez Hernandez, 47, Chief of the Technical Division of the Mexican Army, military historian...
Juan Antonio Rios, candidate of the Radical Party, who looked like the best bet. A banker and onetime Minister of the Interior, he represents the right wing of the Radical Party and is strongly antiCommunist. A Radical split had loomed when Rios and Gabriel González Videla divided the vote of the nominating convention and a special tribunal had to be set up to decide the party's nominee. But last week, when the tribunal decided for Rios, Leftist Gonzalez, who had been the late President's personal choice, announced that he would manage Rios' campaign...