Word: adolfo
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...bull is not sport but drama. Gringos, who often find themselves cheering the bull, insist that whatever it is, it is loaded in favor of the bullfighter. Last week, as the new season opened in Mexico City, the gringos had reason to believe they might have been right. President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had decided that the drama needed some editing; he decreed 98 changes in the bullfighting code, designed to give the bulls a better break and to take some of the histrionics out of the bullfighters...
...Adolfo Ruiz Cortines...
...hours after landing in New Orleans, President Eisenhower turned his eyes to Texas and a quiet weekend at the 15,000-acre ranch of Democratic Governor Allan Shivers. This week he continued his southward journey into Mexico. Crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo, he met Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and with him dedicated the $50 million international Falcon Dam, a five-mile-long earth and rock-fill barrier, that will bring irrigation and flood control to both sides of the Rio Grande and electricity to light up the border towns. Before the dedication, both Presidents watched...
...fellows seem to know more about Mexico than we that live here. Makes me feel like working for Don Adolfo after I read your excellent article ... Up to date there are a lot of people that believe that Mr. Ruiz Cortines is a puppet of Miguel Aleman's regime...
...change, a campaign pledge which President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines has made good, gives women full legal rights of citizenship, notably the vote. The voting privilege will start at 21 for single men or women, at 18 for the married-on the amiable theory that marriage is an indication of maturity. Only one of 40 Senators spoke out against the amendment. "This," cried Aquiles ElorcLy, in a faint echo of the anticlericalism that used to keep Mexican politics at a low boil, "hands the country to the church." None of the other 39 lawmakers seemed to fear that Mexico...