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Catholic priests and nuns have been teaching in New Mexico ever since the 19th Century days of jolly Father Martinez,† who taught reading, writing and the catechism to New Mexican schoolchildren, until he was excommunicated for having too many children of his own. State law prohibits religious instruction in public schools, but the law has long been winked at. Last week, in the remote town of Dixon, N. Mex., the winking stopped...
Government of All the Talents. As the result of the campaign "roundtables," Aléman came to office the best-briefed President in Mexico's history. He proceeded to surround himself with strong men. Some were old university friends, such as Gobernacion Minister Hector Perez Martinez and Treasury Minister Ramon Beteta. Some were political veterans. Strapping Antonio Bermudez, a former treasurer of Chihuahua, marched out of the President's office with an armload of reports and charts, the new boss of Mexico's oil resources. Others were new to the game of politics. Antonio Ruiz Galindo, millionaire...
Four days later gangsters fired into the Miramar home of Antonio Valdés Rodriguez, wealthy director of Foreign Commerce, missed him. Then assassins killed the 16-year-old son of Senator and Cabinet Minister Joaquin Martinez Saenz as he drove his father...
...Madame Lupescu paraded down the mosaic sidewalks that curl along the slim half-moon of Copacabana beach. Tens of thousands of cariocas, impelled by a summer heat wave, dashed into the Atlantic's cool, green breakers. At Argentina's Mar del Plata, the Unzues and the Martinez de Hozes and all the other upper-crusters sunned themselves at private beach clubs, far from the madding crowd, and seldom swam (the water was too cold...
...grin and a remnant of the Spanish Cortes met again. Of the 474 deputies elected to the Cortes in Spain's last general elections (1936), 127 have died - mostly by execution. The Mexico City meeting, mustering 94 of the 98 deputies now living in Mexico, named Diego Martinez Barrio Provisional President of the Spanish Republic (TIME...