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...Nod from Camacho. But they never forgot the capital. When Cardenas expropriated the oil companies in 1938, Aléman wired the 27 other Governors, hailing the move as "liberation of the country," and demanding support. They responded by electing him chairman of the President's Advisory Council of Governors. In 1939 he moved to the capital to manage Manuel Avila Camacho's presidential campaign against Juan Almazan. Mexicans recall the ruthless drive with which he carried through the election; to this day many insist that Almazan really won and was counted...
Sometimes, he does not even seem to like the Dodgers; he hurt rather than helped three promising players by tongue-lashings that shook their confidence; last season, Little Vic Lombardi hardly dared pitch a ball without looking to the dugout for Leo's nod. Leo's smart assistant, Coach Chuck Dressen, now with the Yankees, spent much of his time reinflating egos. (Some belittlers, exaggerating Dressen's importance, think the Dodgers won't be the same without him.) But Leo's lip also pays off. Against the Chicago Cubs last season, the day was getting...
Pepper points to his years at Law School as the origin of his politics. With a brief nod to the merits of the Case System, he claims his greatest gain was "a capacity for hard work, a sentiment and appreciation of what it means to get the facts...
Visiting a New Orleans high school to observe and hear today's teenagers, Correspondent Ed Ogle, whose hair is retreating, saw a student nod his way and ask: "Who's the low joe with the high head...
...nod from Maestro Karl Krueger, her conductor and friend, Margaret began. She tackled the reasonably simple Cielito Lindo with power and control, sang the tricky aria, Charmant Oiseau, with swooping zest (and a few flat notes), and coasted home with the well-worn Last Rose of Summer, a song her father had requested...