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...claim for nonfulfillment of contract. For the big job of federal district governor, the Presi-'dent picked a veteran Alemánista, but built such a fire under him that the old wheelhorse leaped like an apocalyptic charger against price-gouging movie exhibitors, police-protected brothels and unsightly sidewalk peddlers, then went frantically to work repairing street drains in flood-plagued working-class districts...
From the tiers of Cell Block D in Mexico's Federal District Penitentiary one morning last week, 250 of the country's toughest thugs and cutthroats gawked like sentimental sidewalk watchers at the ceremony in their prison courtyard. Pretty Maria de Jesus Torres Martinez, 28, had come there to be married to a frog-faced murderer named Jose Ortiz Munoz, called El Sapo (The Bullfrog) by his fellow inmates. Demure in a green frock and red shoes, Maria de Jesus mooned over El Sapo, natty in a clean striped uniform, as he listened with rapt attention...
Ryan, with a six-man staff, set up administrative headquarters in the Mayflower Hotel. An army of gardeners dug up rosebushes, chrysanthemums and shrubbery at the Presbreys' spacious place off Connecticut Avenue, and moved them back five feet to make room for a Parisian street scene, complete with sidewalks and sidewalk cafes. Carpenters built a 30-by-50-ft. dance floor over the lawn, covered it with a sideshow tent, which was decorated as and called the Moulin Rouge. Pressrooms, male and female, were set up with tickers and telephones...
Lucky Break. Bridgehampton (pop. 1,499) was chiefly worried about danger to spectators. Road racing had got a black eye when a youngster watching from the sidewalk was killed at the Watkins Glen race last fall (Lloyd's of London jacked up the insurance rates for road-race organizers after that one). Moreover, earlier last week, road racing had taken another blow when New York's Governor Tom Dewey banned road racing from all state highways. Bridgehampton's town board decided to double the number of special policemen (increasing them to 240), let the races...
Typical is the 25-story, $25 million office building now being completed on the site of the famed old Ritz-Carlton Hotel (TIME, May 14, 1951). Behind a high fence and a sidewalk canopy, work has proceeded with machinelike smoothness on a painstakingly detailed schedule. Few materials are piled on the sidewalk or in the streets, because most of the materials are brought to the site only when needed. A steady stream of trucks flows in & out of the building, just fast enough to keep the steel girders climbing skyward and a supply of concrete and bricks on hand...