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...rival, Ezequiel Padilla, grandiloquent apostle of international cooperation, traveled on a shoestring. His backers, a few conservative businessmen and some ardent amateurs, could not match the turnouts of Alemán's labor unions and bureaucrats. But those who shouted "Viva!" were truly enthusiastic. Padilla's eloquent speeches attacked traditional Mexican "imposition" of the Government candidate, flayed the Communists, subtly played for Church support. Oldtimers compared Padilla to the U.S.'s William Jennings Bryan -a magnificent orator, an impractical politician. Padilla's outspoken wartime cooperation with the U.S. had not endeared him to the average, nationalist...
...courtyard's dust swirls, a grey Brahmin bull had Viva Alemán charcoaled on its sides. Above, in the open galleries, fiery Oaxaca mole, beans, hot tortillas, lemon pop covered the long tables at which the dusty, sweating politicos ate greedily. A four-piece band played...
...lost them prestige recently within the trade union movement, were not to be put off by that sort of modesty. The Communist El Siglo exclaimed over the new Ambassador for 14 columns, compared him favorably with Henry Wallace, and noted proudly that he had mastered two words of Spanish -"Viva Chile"-"in a very few minutes...
...Artena, the citizens put on their shabby Sunday best despite the rain and solemnly went to the polls. In the middle of the main street, painted in huge letters on the rough pavement, was the message: "Vote for the American Republic-Viva VAmerica." A peasant swung his oxcart violently to one side. Said he: "We don't want these wheels going over those words." The wheels of his cart had been salvaged from a German gun carriage...
...Last fortnight Chilean rotos ("ragged ones") demonstrated before the presidential palace in Santiago, carried banners: "Viva Peron...