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...ANTONIO CARRILLO FLORES. When Diego Rivera painted the beautiful wile of Mexico's ambassador, he left her feet bare to emphasize her ' peasant origins." Her parties, attended by the Lyndon Johnsons, Cabinet-level officials and State Department specialists, display a kind of native vitality-featuring mariachi musicians from Mexico City, a table laid with tortillas, black beans and tangy beef, evenings of guitar playing. Carrillo Flores, a full-blooded Tarascan Indian whose father was the 19th child of illiterate parents, made $100,000 a year as a lawyer-and economist, took something like...
...never give the slightest inkling that presidential ambitions have entered his modest head. Instead, his friends quietly start the bandwagon rolling and set about persuading the party powers that their man is ready for the No. 1 spot. The leaders of the P.R.I.'s trade-union wing, the peasant branches, P.R.I.-dominated businessmen's associations, the party's lower-echelon bureaucracy are all consulted. A half-dozen or more names may flash before the public. At last, a central core of party chieftains, a few ex-Presidents with influence and, most important, Mexico's current President...
...Extremely well-bred debutantes are never compulsive eaters." The compulsive eaters who decided this went on to argue whether their affliction was very peasant-like or very bourgeois. "Then again," said one girl, "maybe we're just slobs...
...plots, amateur talent, and sound tracks in the 13 main Indian languages. Itinerant bards, telling stories and singing insurance commercials, wander from village to village. Everywhere possible, in signs, posters, newspaper ads and leaflets, appears the company's symbol: a pair of hands shielding the flame of a peasant oil lamp and a sacred quotation in Sanskrit that means "Your welfare is my responsibility...
...Columbia they threw eggs at me like I was a peasant. But Harvard was incredible. The bad reputation of such a school should be told to the American people," said South Vietnam's first lady...