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...Mexican delegate, Luis Padilla Nervo, wants to know if the scientists think it possible to operate under international authority and in international zones plants producing atomic fuels for both weapons and peaceful uses and to operate in individual nations under national controls secondary plants producing atomic fuel for peaceful purposes...
When young (36) Mario Lasso was Mexican consul general in Chicago, by appointment of his uncle, Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, he took personal care of tourist-card applications filed by particularly pretty girls. That was how he met his second and present wife, tiny, blonde Flora Dancy, 24, of Clinton, Ind., whom he brought back to Mexico last fall when he returned to run Uncle Ezequiel's presidential campaign. Says Flora of husband Mario: "Yes, a great wolf...
Then Ezequiel Padilla called in reporters. He showed them a penciled note allegedly smuggled out from the imprisoned Mario. In the note Mario repudiated the confession, and said it had been wrung from him only after he had been starved, threatened with a pistol, and "beaten up like in the time of the Inquisition." Said Padilla: "The darkest chapter in Mexico's history of iniquities." Said Secret Police sub-Chief Jesùs Galindo of Mario's blast: ''Nothing but lies...
...Ezequiel Padilla finally shook hands with President-elect Miguel Alemán. The fraud charges would be dropped. Even if there had been occasional sleight of hand in the ballot counting, the final result was too conclusive to doubt: Alemán 1,800,829, Padilla...
...early morning battles for control of polling booths. For the first time, soldiers stood guard on election day. As returns poured in, Candidate Miguel Aleman claimed certain victory. The support given him by the Government bureaucracy and the big labor unions made his claim sound valid. Opposition Candidate Ezequiel Padilla shouted "fraud...