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Easy as ABC. Now it is President Eisenhower's turn to make the grand tour. He first spoke of the idea while flying to Acapulco last February to visit President Adolfo Lopez Mateos; when he returned from his Europe-Asia-Africa trip last month and found Latin Americans complaining that the U.S. President had time for everyone but his neighbors, he decided definitely to go. Last week the itinerary was set (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Mexico the key word was bienvenido-welcome. There, for two days last week, the President of the U.S. saw and felt one of the warmest examples of bienvenido of his confetti-showered career. It blazoned from a sign at Acapulco's airport, rustled in the color riot of tropical vegetation, in the rugged beauty of the cliff-crowned bay, the shiny glamour of the hotels, the cheers of the people, and in the friendliness of the President, Adolfo López Mateos. President Eisenhower's trip, occasioned by his desire to demonstrate the U.S.'s deep respect...
...Acapulco (pop. 10,000) turned out for Ike. The airport driveway was strewn with thousands of red carnations, the 10-mile drive to Ike's hotel, the Pierre Marques, was choked with thousands of Mexicans who rimmed the freshly whitewashed curbs, waved signs and photos and shouted greetings. Thousands more awaited Ike in the town itself when he later left his hotel for the trip to the Municipal Palace. Even on the local golf course, action stopped as Ike rode by. A sign proclaimed...
Between meetings, the two Presidents entertained each other at local night clubs (the only facilities available for big-scale entertaining), were joined on one occasion by Britain's former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, who is visiting Acapulco for his health. President Eisenhower got the full tourist treatment: brilliant fireworks, high-diving exhibitions, exotic Aztec dances, a high-style water-skiing show...
...Beginning. Just 36 hours after his arrival in Acapulco, President Eisenhower returned to the airport for his flight back to the U.S. The joint communique issued after the meeting was an apt record of the friendship that had blossomed between the two men at their first meeting, the kind of personal relationship with heads of state that Ike likes best...