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As Mexico's midterm elections approached, observers began to wonder whether the domineering Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) might be successfully challenged for the first time in its 56-year history. Voters fed up with a stagnant economy and continuing official corruption might, some thought, help the opposition National Action Party...
Although P.A.N. officials had warned of violence if the election appeared irregular, reactions were for the most part restrained. A serious incident occurred in the border town of San Luis Rio Colorado, some 17 miles from Yuma, Ariz. There an estimated 1,500 Panistas tried to free 30 supporters who...
"But then Senator [Bob] Packwood heard I had these things, and said they ought to be put in the Smithsonian. So I looked, but I decided that they'd wind up behind some stuffed owl. Then Glenn Campbell of the Hoover Institution [of War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University...
Favorite childhood toy: Feivel the Mouse stuffed animal.
Roosevelt was firm in his convictions, but he was also a man of puzzling contradictions. An avid conservationist who added national forests and wildlife refuges, Roosevelt’s first act after his chosen successor William Howard Taft took office was to embark on a safari to shoot lions, giraffes...