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...square. As the din crescendoed, railway workers forming a canyon through the crowd swung their matracas (rattles) wildly. With hand stretched high in salute, a robust man in a white guayabera (tropical shirt) jogged up to the speaker's platform. The crowd broke into a roar: " Viva Lopez Portillo...
...have been similar campaign scenes all across Mexico lately, as the country's 25 million registered voters prepare to go to the polls July 4 to elect their next President. Unlike the U.S. electorate, however, Mexicans already know who will win. He is José López Portillo, 56, who was Finance Minister in the present government and the personal choice of President Luis Echeverria Alvarez to succeed him. Because Mexican law limits a President to one six-year term, the incumbent customarily chooses the next standard bearer of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (P.R.I.), which has dominated...
...Friday, commercial service resumed at the international Pudahuel terminal. Trains also began to run again, without the danger that they would be taken over and stalled by militants, as occasionally happened during Allende's regime. Skiers were even able to go up to the Andean resort of Portillo for a crack at the last corn snow of the season...
...record is all the more remarkable because few experts expected much from her this year. Only three weeks before the Winter Games, she severely strained the ligaments in 'her left ankle. The experts should have remembered what a gutsy competitor she is. In the 1966 World Championships at Portillo, Chile, she caught an edge in the downhill and somersaulted into a retaining wall at 60 m.p.h. "I've never seen any girl take a worse fall," said French Ski Coach Honoré Bonnet. "I didn't expect her to get up again." Nancy got up all right...
Into the Wall. Daughter of a mechanical engineer who put her on skis at the age of three, Nancy competed in the 1960 Olympics when she was 16, finished an unimpressive 22nd in the downhill. By 1964 at Innsbruck, she was up to 7th in the downhill. At Portillo last year, she was rated a cinch for a gold medal, after beating everybody in practice. Then, in the downhill, she slammed into a snow-packed retaining wall at 60 m.p.h., badly bruising her right arm. "She couldn't even lift her arm," recalls her coach, Verne Anderson...