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Died. Federico Laredo Bru, 71, one-time (1936-40) frontman President of Cuba for his boss and successor, Colonel Fulgencio Batista; in Havana...
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...tourism, at $50,000,000 a year, is the country's fourth largest industry. During the war, Mexico got a share of the fancy carriage trade which once dawdled along the Riviera. Now the prewar, wholesome, camera-slung gringo is driving down the splendid 750-mile highway from Laredo, Tex. to Mexico City, to find that spiraling inflation has changed the land of cheap living he remembered. Nightclubs charge a $6 minimum, simple lunches cost...
...puts U.S. news into Spanish for the Laredo, Tex. Times got a little balled up in the excitement. As a result, the 4,000 readers of the Times's Spanish language edition read this startling bulletin: "President Truman announced today that the Japanese for the first time had used atomic bombs with the power of 2,000 tons." Next day, the Times reassured its readers...
Drug on the Market. In Laredo, Tex., at the Mexican border, U.S. customs in spectors seized their first penicillin smuggler...