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Mexico City's noise had got on people's nerves. Last week Federal District Governor Javier Rojo Gómez announced that a five-year-old statute sharply curbing noises after 11 p.m. would be strictly enforced. After that hour cars must not sound Klaxons, streetcars must not use air whistles, jukeboxes must be played only behind closed doors, people must not shout either in joy or in anger, and anyone wishing to give a gallo (serenade) might do so only with police permission...
...cattlemen struggled with the legacy of civil wars, a virulent malaria known as la fiebre económica (Venezuelans quip that if it hits in the morning, your only expense is a coffin at night) and the 27-year exploitation of Dictator-President Juan Vicente Gómez. Their worst headache: the senseless three-to-four-week trek to Gómez's slaughterhouse near the coast (over 20% of the cattle's weight was lost...
Betancourt and Gallegos had been exiles in the days of tyrannical dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. They had returned to Venezuela to help prod President Eleázar López Contreras along the path of measured democracy. For a time they had gotten along with his successor, Medina. But they had broken with Medina when he failed 1) to tackle the nation's economic problems squarely, 2) to change the constitution so that the President could be elected by direct suffrage...
...newspaper, El Siglo, property of Colombia's most choleric orator, Laureano Gómez (who went into self-imposed exile following the Presidential abduction last summer), roared that "arrests of clergymen violated the Concordat with the Vatican." But the rest of the press saved its condemnation for the plotters...
Officially Franco still remained neutral. He sent his Foreign Minister, Count Francisco Gómez Jordana y Souza, and twelve military and diplomatic bigwigs for wining, dining and a joint accord on neutrality and anti-Communism with neighboring Portugal.* He welcomed home General Agustin Muñoz Grande, recently decorated (by Hitler) commander of the Falangist Blue Division fighting in Russia. From his train window at the border, the general shouted: "Long live the mothers who begat the most valiant soldiers in the world." At San Sebastián Falangist crowds cheered his prophecy of "certain Nazi victory over Russian...