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Mexicans saw the best show since Paracutin.* In the steel-blue air above the lofty capital, a group of 27 U.S. Superfortresses glinted in the bright, winter sun. Jet fighters streaked by. Inside Mexico City's brilliant, white marble Palacio de Bellas Artes, outgoing chief executive Manuel Avila Camacho gave over the red, white and green band that was his symbol of office, and an aide quickly adjusted it diagonally across the chest of angular Miguel Alem...
...Died. Manuel de Falla, 69, famed Spanish composer, who drew from the folk songs and rhythms of his native land inspiration for his ballets (The Three-Cornered Hat, Love, the Sorcerer), whose name has become a synonym for contemporary Spanish music and whose works are a part of the permanent repertory of the world's top musicians; after long illness; in Alta Gracia, Argentina...
...slatternly Mexican border town of Tapachula had spruced up for the occasion. At the airport, under a brassy sun, Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho and Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo slapped each other's broad backs in warm Latin embrace. Their wives embraced also (see cut). Never before had Mexico's relations with its southern neighbor been so cordial...
...Manuel Rodriguez, 28, sensational Spanish matador known to the world's aficionados as Manolete, stopped in Manhattan en route to Peru for the winter season, cleared up a little something for a local reporter. What right had he to the title, "the foremost bullfighter"? asked the reporter. "I am the most graceful," explained Manolete carefully, "the most artistic, the most technical, and the most courageous bullfighter...
Holdovers from last year's team like Manuel Aguirre-Roca, Carlos Blanco, and Tom Ragle are an added been to soccer-student Macdonald...