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...last week Private Citizen Alemán was unwillingly back in the news. Using the name Miguel A. Valdés (his mother's family name) he took off from New York on a Pan-American Stratocruiser for Paris. He was accompanied by five companions, of whom Mexico City papers named only such notables as Carlos Serrano, ex-president of the Senate, and Antonio Díaz Lombardo, former director of social security and one of the new millionaires of the Alemán administration. Within a few hours the capital buzzed with another name. According to the passenger...
...over the U.S. (he won the Elkhart Lake, Wis. race twice), Europe and South America, where he won the "Eva Perón Stakes," the National Argentine Sports Car Race, in 1951. He often drives for famed U.S. Sports-Car builder Briggs Cunningham,* and in last November's Pan-American race he became the first U.S. driver since the days of Barney Oldfield to drive a car (Mercedes) sponsored by Daimler-Benz...
...Supreme Court has recently ruled that a $25,000 award won by a former Brigham Young University music professor was subject to a federal income tax. Leroy J. Robertson won the prize in '47 in a Pan-American Symphony contest...
...Foundation, is writing a Ph.D. thesis on treaties in the United Nations. He finds an up up-to-date collection of U.N. documents in the Edwin Ginn Library, situated in the basement of Gordon Hall. The collection of 50,000 volumes and pamphlets, including League of Nations publications and Pan-American Union information, was obtained from the World Peace Foundation...
From the sunbaked, palm-dotted town of Tuxtla Gutiérrez near the Guatemalan border, 97 carefully tuned automobiles set off last week on the first northward lap of the second Pan-American stock-car race, a five-day, 1,933-mile scramble sponsored by Mexico's National Automobile Association. Competing with Mexican speed demons for $68,000 in prizes-and the glory of beating some of the world's nerviest racers to Ciudad Juarez-were two-man teams from the U.S., Canada, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, France and Italy. Ahead of them were the hairpin curves, roller-coaster...