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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charmer. Alemán knows how to win men and charm women. To President Avila Camacho's wholesome, good-hearted wife, Soledad, who shows him a motherly fondness, Alemán owes many a political debt. Señora de Avila Camacho once defined the official line toward Alemán by stating at dinner: "There will be no criticism of Miguelito in this house...
Flat Space? Some of the astronomers were concentrating on the distant galaxies -or on space itself. One space-gazer (Señor Luis Enrique Erro of the Mexican Astrophysical Observatory) began to throw serious doubts on Einstein's theory of "curved space." Einstein's doctrine, applied to study of the distant galaxies, which seem to be rushing away from the earth at enormous speed, had made the universe appear too young, said Señor Erro. It seemed only a billion years old by Einsteinian reckoning. But geologists have pretty well proved that even the earth is twice...
...painted Teresa spread voluptuously on a divan, draped in white silk and gave the portrait to her husband. Then he painted her nude in the same posture, and kept it for himself.* Sometimes the Duchess graciously sent Goya's family tasty, palace-cooked tidbits on gold plates. Sensible Señora Goya used to eat the tidbits and keep the plates. When the Inquisition put a sleuth on the lovers' tracks, Goya caught the sleuth and calmly skinned the soles of his feet with a dagger. The book ends when the Duchess dies, and Goya, ferocious as ever...
Ever since Boccaccio or before, Italians have had a saying: "Se non é vero, é bene trovato-It may not be true, but it's a good story." Last week, according to the A.P., Italians were telling this tale...
Publisher Raul Damonte Taborda fled to Uruguay. Then his mother-in-law and the paper's chief owner, Señora Salvadora Medina Onrubia de Botana, gave up the battle, let pro-Perón federal officials take over. Last week Señora Botana and the federals celebrated the surrender-by toasting...