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...country kids no longer had the fair to themselves. By then, all seven of the main gates were open, and through them streamed goggle-eyed Texans by the thousands (total attendance for the day: 212,-662-a record). Soon, amid a great blaring of sirens, Governor Beauford Jester drove up in a big open car, cut a ribbon with a pair of golden scissors and delivered a speech inflated with standard Texasity...
...Citizens of muddy, dingy Italy, Texas (pop. 1,258) prepared to set an example for the nation by shining up their town. They prepared so vehemently that Governor Beauford Jester proclaimed a special "Italy Day." Last week 1,000 people turned to for the blitz against grime, in one day cleaned up vacant lots, hosed down streets, planted flowers, painted buildings in the drab business section a gleaming white...
...Received some 2,000 guests in the gold and damask halls of the National Palace. ¶Got a ten-gallon Stetson and a cowboy shirt from a Texas delegation headed by Governor-elect Beauford Jester. ¶Received calls from leftist ex-President Cárdenas, rightist ex-President Abelardo Rodriguez and middle-of-the-road ex-President Camacho. ¶Made a big hit with newsmen by holding Mexico's first give& amp; -take presidential press conference, broke another Mexican precedent by starting it at the scheduled time. But he neatly parried all attempts to define his new regime...
...last week, to no one's surprise, friendly, middle-of-the-roader Beauford Jester smacked out a home run to win the ball game with a two-to-one majority. His chief campaign promises: increased old-age pensions without increased taxes, a hearty welcome for all shades of warring Texas Democrats. To Rainey's last-minute charges of Ku Klux Klan backing, he quipped: "He has lost his fast ball, he has lost his curve ball. All he's got left is a mud ball...
...Texan's Texan, softspoken, greying (53) Beauford Jester had all the attributes of a winning candidate: Texas-born, son of a former Texas lieutenant governor, graduate of Texas University and its law school, infantry captain in World War I, father of three children (one a pretty Texas coed...