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...economic expansion. He preached industrialization, and he spent lavishly. Among his dams were grandiose, TVA-type projects, among his schools was a $25 million University City (TIME, Feb. 23). For Alemán and his friends, the biggest was best for Mexico-and for themselves. They remembered well the maxim of President Manuel Avila Camacho's brother: "If you build a road for 75,000 pesos and pocket 1,000, everybody will howl. But if you build a road for 75 million pesos and knock Dack a million, nobody will notice...
...Camp Perry, Ohio, the high-powered rifle events of the National Rifle and Pistol Matches (TIME, Sept. 7) were won by two U.S. marines. With 435 points out of a possible 450, Master Sergeant Maxim R. Beebe took the service-rifle title. Staff Sergeant Don L. Smith won the sporting-rifle championship with...
...waiters at the Waldorf-Astoria, the Stork, or even Maxim's, serve no greater variety of customers than the countermen at John's Diner on Fulton Street in Brooklyn. John's, as a matter of fact, has the edge-it stays open all night. But despite their deep, egg-spattered knowledge of human eccentricity, nobody in John's had the slightest inkling that a new and glorious page in the diner's history was about to be written when William ("The Laughing Bandit") Kampi lowered himself to a stool at 3:30 a.m. one morning...
Charged in his wife's divorce suit with gross neglect, extreme cruelty and beating her "black and blue," former Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim protested that it wasn't that way at all. "Sure, we had some fights, but I always came out worse than she did. I take more than I dish...
...death was a significant milestone. In midsummer 1953, however, the shape of the new era was not yet apparent. In Washington and Moscow, men unaccustomed to the exercise of national power were still groping toward policies of their own. Each group felt strongly the force of the ancient maxim: "Know your enemy." Enemies of the U.S. have started and lost two great wars largely because they miscalculated American strength and direction. On its part, through failure to know its enemy, the U.S. had suffered at Pearl Harbor one of the most spectacular and costly surprises of history. Neither...