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Democracy came to Mexico last week -- sort of. In the booming border state of Baja California Norte, Ernesto Ruffo Appel, the candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), was declared the victor over Margarita Ortega Villa, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) in the race for governor. Once officially confirmed this week, Ruffo's victory will mark the first time in the 60-year history of the P.R.I. that the party has conceded defeat in such an election. "It is a decisive event," says political analyst Jorge Castaneda, "the first that will have an authentic historic...
...streetcar conductor because he could not pronounce the street names. He began going to concerts there, and liked them so much that when he moved to Brooklyn he decided to stage a few of his own. By 1915 he was regularly presenting such performers as Mischa Elman, Titta Ruffo and Alma Gluck in low-priced concerts at the old New York Hippodrome...
...Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Jean Honoré Fragonard, George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. In money terms, the prize of the lot was one of the three Rembrandts: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Commissioned in 1653 by a Sicilian nobleman named Don Antonio Ruffo, it was one of the finest masterpieces in any private collection...
...impatiently for their glum bachelor King to get married, Paola seemed the perfect answer to the national yearning for a royal romance. Blonde, gracious and 21, she is descended from one of Italy's oldest noble families, the daughter of the late aviation ace, the Prince Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, Duke of Guardia Lombarda and Count of Sinopoli...
Around the world, peace could be captured in the sight of Dior models in front of Stalin's tomb, in the pensive glances of Belgium's Prince Albert and Italy's Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria before their marriage this week. The prosperity of Western Europe could be seen at the crowded beaches, in the tumult of new cars crowding the Autobahnen. Those insecure lands of the Middle East, of Africa, of Asia were taking turns that caused concern as well as hope; in some, harsh methods employed new guises. But in this Geneva interval, when...