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Oaxaca's title-loving Governor Edmundo Sanchez Cano (who usually signs himself Doctor-Governor-General-Pilot) had been no administrative paragon. Examples: the road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered...
...greet RendÓn with earnest inquiries about his campaign's progress. The press, which has dubbed him "the picturesque presidential candidate" (in contrast to the Mexican Revolutionary Party's dull favorite, former Interior Minister Miguel Aleman), has gaily promoted his Mexican Rendonian Party (Partido Rendoncista Mexi-cano). Mexico City's weekly picture magazine AS (Ace) ran the campaigning artist on its cover...
...that his secretive expedition would carry only Portuguese seamen, Magellan tried to stop the angry clamor with bullets, finally took long three Spanish captains. Chosen for their politics rather than their seamanship, they gave him much less opposition than the Basque ship's master, Sebastian del Cano (who with 34 survivors with the only officer to get back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened to, the voyage would have ended very differently. Suspicious of Magellan's behavior,, del Cano and Gonzalo discovered before long that...
...blind date. Venturing further, the day may come when a mass descent upon Radcliffe and Wellesley (with weapons) will remove this orthodontical veneer that has covered the female searcher after knowledge since time immemorial, and, oh happy day, render the feminine campus a joy forever. Arma virumque cano...
...Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston, the McCulloch were lined up in the harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano, Marques del Duero. On the bridge of the Olympia stood two men; one of them was Commodore Dewey, commander of the American fleet, the other was his flag officer. The harbor was very quiet for a few minutes; it was only a little after five o'clock but you could...