Word: alem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mexicans understood too. Interior Minister Ruiz Cortínez had been nominated by the official party convention as the government's candidate to succeed President Miguel Alemán. In present-day Mexico, that assures election. Barring death or accident, Adolfo Ruiz Cortínez will...
With the nomination of Ruiz Cortínez, the solid citizens of PRI's leadership swung away from the flashy playboyism of handsome Miguel Alemán. Greying, frail and 58, with a strong facial resemblance to Boris Karloff (his nickname is Cara de Calavera-Skullface), Ruiz Cortínez is a far cry from the magnetic type traditionally admired by Mexicans. Said a political reporter last week, "Mexico is now going to get a Coolidge...
...lives modestly in one of the capital's more conservative neighborhoods. His favorite relaxation is playing dominoes. After thirteen years in the revolutionary army without rising above the rank of major and eleven years in government bureaus without rising above the rank of clerk, he joined young Mike Alemán and rode the escalator right behind him-first to the governorship of his native Veracruz, then to the Ministry of Interior, the job from which Alemán also stepped to the top. Through it all, he made no important enemies. "I was poor...
Ruiz Cortínez' friends say that as President he will run his own show and will clean out the fat-contract men who surround the present administration. A middle-of-the-roader in domestic politics, he promises to continue Alemán's foreign policy of close friendship with the U.S. In the PRI tradition, he will not accept victory without putting up a show for it. Between now and July, he will tour the country in what he says will be a "gentlemanly and principally patriotic" campaign...
...bronze bust of Harry Truman, which President Miguel Alemán of Mexico presented to the University of Kansas City in 1947, seemed to have an irresistible attraction for students. They daubed it with blue and gold paint, whitewashed it, painted it red and white. Last week, as patient janitors scrubbed off the latest coat of paint (brown and green), President Clarence R. Decker lost his patience, ordered the bust taken from the campus yard and moved to a safer spot in the law building. Said he: "It's just getting to be too much to put up with...