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...three days last week the President met with Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent amid such scenes of studied informality and good neighborliness. The meeting was held not in Washington but in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., a watering place set amid the Alleghenies. There was no agenda, little protocol. A U.S. participant described one session of the talks...
...Invited Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines to a meeting in Washington next month. (Both St. Laurent and Ruiz Cortines accepted, the latter subject to approval of the Mexican Congress...
...Mexico City, a friend asked President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines: "What is your greatest single problem?" The President smiled wryly. "It is the great problem of Mexico," he said. "Look out that window and you will see Mexicans living in shacks, with nothing to eat but tortillas, with no shoes, no education for their children, no hope but one. That hope is that their President will somehow make things better for them...
...Died. Adolfo de la Huerta, 74, onetime revolutionary Mexican political leader, Provisional President of Mexico for seven months in 1920, between the assassination of President Venustiano Carranza and the election of General Alvaro Obregón; of a heart ailment; in Mexico City. An original member of the revolutionary movement which overthrew General Porfirio Diaz in 1911, Huerta at first supported Carranza as leader of the revolution, later shifted his support to Obregón, but broke with him when both became presidential candidates in 1923. After an attempted revolt by his followers was blocked by U.S. intervention...
Paso de la Muerte. In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Pickpocket Adolfo Ramírez proudly told police he wished he could patent his new pilfering technique of spreading a sample of cloth over his right arm while posing as a piece-goods salesman, then distracting his victims' attention with left-handed gestures while his right hand explored their pockets...