Word: paseo
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Down Mexico City's broad Paseo de la Reforma swept a noisy mob: partisans of Presidential Candidate Miguel Aleman. On their shoulders they bore a black coffin emblazoned in big white letters with the name of former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, new and rival entry in the Mexican Presidential campaign. Before Alemán's mansion headquarters the paraders stopped, lowered the coffin. Then they set it on fire. With elections still ten months away, the shouting had already begun. Said cynical observers of Mexico's politics: the shooting may be expected momentarily...
...been censored with more cause. Rum & Coca-Cola burgeoned on the Port-of-Spain waterfront in 1943. Its composer was a stocky Negro calypso singer named Rupert Grant, known for professional purposes as "Lord Invader." For Rum & Coca-Cola he took a tune, with alterations, from a popular Trinidad paseo (two step), and dogged out some doggerel...
...Mexico City Picasso show was gathered by the town's newest art association, Sociedad de Arte Moderno (Modern Art Society). In the Society's rented gallery on the Paseo de la Reforma, all kinds of Picassos were hung-from the posterish Harlequin to the Seated Woman (see cut), an example of Picasso's attempt to capture a figure from several angles simultaneously. Dropped at the last minute was a plan to show a large reproduction of Picasso's famed Guernica mural, a graphically violent protest against Franco's atrocities during the Spanish Civil...
...police fought it for six hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the streets, belching a black column from its smokestack. Mexico's tallest skyscraper, a nearly completed, 17-story office building at the corner of the handsome Paseo de la Reforma and the Avenida del Ejido, shook and cracked as the city rocked. A five-story section of glass and facing stone collapsed, sent rubble crashing down on the sidewalk...
...within plain view of some ten miles of Franco entrenchments. The Communist stronghold was in the partly completed Government buildings on the old race-track course in northeastern Madrid, less than two miles from the Franco trenches in University City. At one time the Communist revolters surged down the Paseo de Recoletos to the famed Plaza de Cibeles, on which are located the buildings of the Banco de Espana, the central post office and the War Ministry. They were driven back by a tank attack...