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...Work. Prince and general drove together to the palace of the Duque de Montellano, a drab pile of masonry on the Paseo de la Castellana near the U.S. consulate, which is to be the prince's new home. In a reception room, a score of privileged grandees and their wives waited with half a dozen of Juan's former high school classmates. The prince shook hands all round. Said General Martinez de Campos, taking the prince by the arm and leading him to the center of the room: "Now, if Your Royal Highness pleases, we will...
Mexico's President Miguel Aleutian likes to claim as one of the most notable achievements of his six years in office the successful rise of Pemex, the government oil monopoly. Recently, when his government raised a monument to Pemex in Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, the pedestal bore not only the famous 1938 expropriation decree of President Lazaro Cardenas, but quotations from a 1936 pro-expropriation speech by Aleman, then the youthful governor of Veracruz. Last week, in the final month of his presidential term, President Aleman flew to the Gulf Coast jungles to inspect Pemex...
...high noon one day last week, a throng of angry housewives, their market baskets under their arms, tramped along Pamplona's main street, the Paseo de Sarasate. The price of eggs had gone up from 30 to 43 ? a dozen over the weekend. "To the governor's palace!" cried the women. "We won't stand for this any longer . . . Hang the black marketeers...
...elderly couple from Nebraska stopped by our Mexico City news bureau on the Paseo de la Reforma last week to discuss the Korean war effort. Said the husband: "We came down here on a summer vacation trip-the longest distance we've ever been away from home. We still make sure that we read TIME every week, and the Korean war news has us worried. Do you think we should go home and try to help...
Chatillon has made customer-shocking a million-peso-a-year business. For half an hour before the opening of his annual fashion show last week, the Packards and Cadillacs of traditionally tardy Mexico City society matrons tied up traffic in front of his combined atelier and home on the Paseo de la Reforma. Inside, they sipped cocktails and critically eyed U.S., French and Mexican mannequins in a display of 60 new models ranging from simple afternoon dresses to bare-top evening gowns at from 1,500 to 5,000 pesos each...