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Neumaticos Para Turistas? The New York Times printed startling news from Laredo, Tex.: "American tourists visiting Mexico can obtain all of the automobile tires they need...
...months since Pearl Harbor, 3,242 tourist cars entered Mexico at Nuevo Laredo-a drop of 1,407 from the same two months last year. Tourists were staying away. They feared a Japanese invasion of Mexico; it was unpatriotic to drive cars for pleasure; they did not want to wear out their tires touring in Mexico or anywhere else...
...until Cuba's courts could pass on the evidence. But last week Cuba's Supreme Court, which fortnight ago had admitted the legality of the 2,000 complaints, revoked its decision, changing its mind for the first time in the history of the tribunal. Outgoing President Federico Laredo Bru, longtime Batistaman, ordered the Superior Electoral Tribunal to certify those candidates not specifically affected by the complaints-including Fulgencio Batista. Colonel Batista announced his Cabinet, drawn from four of the five parties of the coalition that nominated him, and stated he was "the happiest man in the world...
North of the Border. All week long a stream of Almazán followers moved north through Mexico, crossed into the U. S. at Laredo and Brownsville, poured into San Antonio, whose 90,000 Mexicans stood almost solidly for Almazán. Thirty years ago onetime President Francisco Madero used this same town as a jumping-off place for the revolution which carried him to power...
...border: Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the goat-gland wizard and Astrologer Rose Dawn, a bouncy blonde plugger for everything from perfume to religious tomes, who use the 180,000 watts of station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud ; the Rev. Sam Morris who daily lets fly on the evils of alcohol and Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel of Texas, who use 100,000-watt station XEAW at Reynosa...