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TIME Correspondent Fred Klein literally felt the veterans' mood: "A crowd of veterans milled around my taxi, swung it around and deposited the front wheels on the sidewalk. Their leader pulled me out and seated me gently on the pavement...
...great grandstand rose at Mexico City's Balbuena Airport. Along the road to town, workers paved the walks and turfed the unkempt fields. In the city, little groups of men labored past midnight, filling in every last crack in the pavement that Harry Truman would ride over. Every boulevard shrub had been freshly manured to make the capital a little greener for its first visit, this week, from a U.S. President...
...love affair. Nothing more; but anyone could see that it was "well written," meaning that the writer had a pleased ear for U.S. speech; an effortless way of evoking familiar things "[the milkman's horse] casually shifted weight with a clink of steel shoes on the worn brick pavement of the street, and then heartily shook himself in his harness, perhaps to dislodge a fly far ahead of its season"; and the ability to spin out at his sardonic leisure a plot that became just sufficiently painful...
...Most readers will have a hard time finding any appreciable difference between the new Bright Day and such earlier efforts as The Good Companions and Angel Pavement. Changeless Author Priestley is still his typically British 'arf-an'-'arf self -half an able, warmhearted craftsman whose values rest on beef and decency, half a left-of-center propagandist, who views bureaucratic Laborites and heartless boosters of free enterprise with the same beady...
...might be expected, the regiomontanos were too busy to bother much about their week-long celebration. Elsewhere in Mexico, the slightest excuse for a fiesta would have closed the town, jammed the streets with pavement dancers and flavored-ice vendors, filled the air with shots and shouts. In Monterrey moderate crowds were moderately enthusiastic, a total of two small boys climbed the rooftops to watch the fiesta-day parade...