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Pacote is half-drunk. For a year, his courage has been "going fast like a handful of water dribbling out of ... cupped palms through the fingers." At 29 his face is scarred and drawn, his hair streaked with white. A flashier torero, 20-year-old Tano Ruiz, has the crowds in his pocket and has goaded the old pro into a last defense of his crown. As Pacote belts away whisky to blunt the knife of fear in his stomach, his hand-me-down society mistress taunts him as "a picknose peasant ... a shell...
...fact that it has emerged from the only true revolution ever to occur in Latin America. It is about as democratic as a one-party country can get, though probably a long way from the point where one party can peaceably yield power to another at the polls. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, the official government candidate, appears set to succeed President Miguel Alemán in the July elections...
Excess Profits. In El Paso, Bartender Rafael Ruiz asked cops to look for a man who came into the tavern, asked for a $10 bill in exchange for ten $1 bills, then gave Ruiz back the $10 bill and the ten $1 bills in exchange for a $20 bill...
...Ruiz Cortínez is a staid standard-bearer for Mexico's "revolutionary" party. He hates publicity, speaks rarely, lives modestly in one of the capital's more conservative neighborhoods. His favorite relaxation is playing dominoes. After thirteen years in the revolutionary army without rising above the rank of major and eleven years in government bureaus without rising above the rank of clerk, he joined young Mike Alemán and rode the escalator right behind him-first to the governorship of his native Veracruz, then to the Ministry of Interior, the job from which Alem...
...Ruiz Cortínez' friends say that as President he will run his own show and will clean out the fat-contract men who surround the present administration. A middle-of-the-roader in domestic politics, he promises to continue Alemán's foreign policy of close friendship with the U.S. In the PRI tradition, he will not accept victory without putting up a show for it. Between now and July, he will tour the country in what he says will be a "gentlemanly and principally patriotic" campaign...