Word: adolfo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other words, what man was the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) secretly choosing to be the country's next President? Last week the guessing was over. The P.R.I.'s choice is Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, 52, Secretary of Government in the Cabinet of incumbent President Adolfo López Mateos. Diaz Ordaz' title obscured his real importance. As a combination Interior Minister and Home Secretary, he is López Mateos' right-hand...
...tightly held, one-party regime; but Mexicans keep industrializing, and a stable middle class is more and more influential. Each year, as the economic milestones flick by, the country takes a festive day off to hear the President report on just how far it has come; last week President Adolfo Lopez Mateos rode through crowd-jammed streets to the Chamber of Deputies to deliver his fifth annual state of the union message. Since he is constitutionally barred from succeeding himself, it was also his last before the presidential elections next July, and the nationally televised speech turned...
...running from 250 acres to 1,500 acres, according to improvements, is subject to expropriation without compensation. Since the revolution, governments have parceled out some 125 million acres to 2,700,000 families and established 25,000 ejidos. And distribution still goes on; in the past five years, President Adolfo López Mateos has expropriated and parceled out 30 million acres of farmland...
...giving Mexico 630 acres of U.S. territory [July 26]; it is returning Mexican territory to Mexico. Our great President Don Adolfo Lopez Mateos also was as just as your great President in not charging the U.S. back rent from 1911, the year that international arbitration declared in our favor. We are definitely more than good neighbors...
Four years ago, President Adolfo Lopez Mateos sacked the politicians in control of Pemex and named a new boss: Pascual Gutierrez Roldan, 60, a successful Monterrey steelman. Gutierrez Roldan got rid of as many old pols and their pals as he could, reduced operating costs and used the money to drill new wells, build refineries and lay extensive pipelines. He then went after the foreign capital that he needed, hitting the money market at just the right time. Postwar reconstruction was well out of the way, and both European and U.S. banks were hunting new investments. Within six months Gutierrez...