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...Just before his Dec. 1 inauguration, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had a visit in his office from a resolute feminist named Amalia de Castillo Ledon. The conversation was brief and businesslike...
...Fine Arts, a glittering throng gathered this week to witness the inaugural ceremonies of a new President. The leaders of Mexico and the envoys of 57 foreign governments, in braid-crusted uniforms or solemn full dress, watched as a gaunt man in a plain black suit stepped forth. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had come to take his oath as President...
...Staid Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 61, is a new kind of President; he is neither a general nor a lawyer, but a bureaucrat. His nickname is Cara de Calavera, or Skullface; though he looks like Actor Boris Karloff, in his make-up there is a little Milquetoast: in movies, he obeys no-smoking rules even when everyone around him is puffing away. His favorite pastime is dominoes, though he also likes to watch baseball and stroll to street-corner stands to sip tamarind juice...
...have the right to say my conscience and my hands are clean." Many Mexicans, convinced that only Bermudez keeps Pemex from ruin by political grafters and grifters. hope that he will be asked to stay on. In Bermudez' office sits a life-size bust of President-elect Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, but all Bermudez says is: "My commission from President Aleman expires the last day of this month. That's all I know. I'm not saying one word about the future...
...quietest election of her modern history, Mexico this week chose Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 59, as President for the next six years. The official count will not be announced until July 20, but government estimates based on incomplete returns indicated that Ruiz Cortines had carried more than 80% of the vote. Minister of the Interior in President Miguel Aleman's government for the past four years, Ruiz Cortines was the choice of the official Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), which has governed the country for 22 years...