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Time was when high-spirited citizens of Buffalo Gap. Texas (pop. 335) let off steam by bucketing down the main street on their perkiest cow ponies. Then came automobiles-but little else changed. Everyone still barreled through town at a breakneck clip. The sheriff was twelve miles away in Abilene, as remote as he was in the old freewheeling frontier days of wagon trains and trail herds...
With crops in good shape and the peso at its perkiest in years, Mexico was in fiesta mood for President Miguel Alemán's fourth annual state-of-the-nation message last week. As the President rode to the Chamber of Deputies at the head of a 50-limousine caravan, office girls showered him with red, green and white confetti. When Alemán entered the Chamber, 50 men from the musicians' union rose and thundered the national anthem. Outside, thousands of Mexicans saw and heard their President speak over hundreds of television sets installed in cantinas...