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...organ boomed out The Star-Spangled Banner. Foreign statesmen on official tours usually refrain from visiting the shrine, possibly out of fear of offending the once ardent anticlerical sentiment that still lingers faintly among many educated Mexicans. But at the church, Archbishop Luis María Martínez said to Nixon: "You have shown understanding in coming to this shrine, for it is the heart of Mexico." When Nixon came out, the Mexicans waiting outside showered him with confetti, shouted vivas for him, for President Eisenhower...
...nominate Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela ... By judicial management of the rich natural resources of the country, he has not only increased home prosperity but also filled the pockets of many people outside Venezuela...
Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida is a tiny (5 ft. 1 in.), bouncy man of 76, who likes to wear old-fashioned wing collars and pince-nez and who like another well-known Prime Minister, has a fondness for strong brandy and premier-sized cigars. Last week Yoshida was in the U.S. on a twofold mission: 1) to pay a formal goodwill call, and 2) to find some economic succor for his hungry homeland. The protocol tour was a resounding success, but the fund-raising expedition turned out to be a disappointment for the little visitor...
...came West in covered wagons, raised log cabins and broke virgin soil, fought with Indians and rode stages into newly opened valleys. Others, still in their 50s, are keenly conscious of their parents' trials, pulling handcarts across the U.S., clearing settlements, huddling in sod forts during the Nez Perce and Bannock uprisings. The big country, immense space and small population have nurtured this pioneer feeling. Deep in the Washington woods, along upper Montana benchlands and in the wilderness of Idaho's canyons, are lone dwellings of families who still fight bears and cougars and board their children...
Died. Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, 88, playwright (La Malquerida) and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1922; of a heart ailment; in Madrid...