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Washout. For President Miguel Aleman, the troubles posed a political dilemma. Whatever his lack of regard for the oldtime bosses, he still needed their support. Besides, he could not let the rightists make political hay. Firmness in the oil workers' strike (TIME, Dec. 30) had paid off; firmness in a political crisis like that at Oaxaca might pay dividends also...
...wife's death in 1885, was often full of guests (said he: "I run a hotel"). Childless himself, he took great interest in his nieces & nephews, and played "Uncle Henry" and year-round Santa Claus to other youngsters, especially those of his crony, Secretary of State John Hay...
...could the mild-eyed creatures know, munching their hay in the ship's hold, that they were a token in a play of forces called history? History to a reindeer is the rising and the setting sun, begetting and dying, the north-and southward seasonal flight of birds. How could the two deer know that if a man named Hitler had never been born, if there had never occurred that crisis of European civilization one of whose phases is called Naziism, if the Germans had never invaded Norway, if the British had not come to help, they would still...
Married. Diana Denyse, Countess of Erroll, 20, who, as hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland (an honor bestowed upon Ancestor Sir Gilbert Hay by Robert Bruce in 1314 after the Battle of Bannockburn), ranks within Scotland's borders immediately after the Royal Family; and Captain Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe, 27, special assistant to Britain's Ambassador to the Soviet Union; in London...
...each other on the back all the time. If I try to sell them anything it will be the validity of basic American ideas." His ideas about his mission are firm. Years ago, in grammar school, he memorized Little Breeches, by his hero, Ambassador to Britain John Hay, the last lines of which he still likes to quote...