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...also enjoyed one minor triumph over governmental red tape. A bronze bust of the President had been presented by Mexico's President Miguel Alemán to the University of Kansas City, where both received honorary degrees last spring. But because no evaluation had been made to customs officers (although no actual duty is required on art for exhibition), the 600-lb. statue had remained in the Kansas City customs office since last June, padded with 18 seat cushions from a Mexican bullfight ring. Last week a satisfactory price tag was finally attached and the statue released. The price...
...Mexico City, near the chamber of deputies, chauffeurs turned up the radios in cabinet ministers' cars and little knots of people gathered around to listen. All over the Republic, in the village plazas and city zócalos, Mexicans gathered near the loudspeakers to hear President Miguel Alemán's sober address at the opening of Congress. "This report," said he, "cannot be as alluring as we might have wished...
...Alemán reminded his listeners of these troubles. Said he: "We must work, produce ; work, produce.. . . While our economy remains anemic, we can only alleviate the disease; we cannot cure it completely. . . . Our population [now 22,000,000] increases by 50,000 yearly. This increase assures our capacity for economic development...
Acts of Man. Bad news was tempered with good. Alemán pointed to the Papaloapan River project that would set up a sort of Mexican TVA (TIME, March 31), a related plan to expand facilities for farm credit, and another to return to silver coinage, a move that would help the mining industry. His best piece of news had been written into the address at the last minute: after a nine-year controversy, Mexico had finally settled the oil expropriation row with Britain. For Royal Dutch Shell's subsidiary, the El Águila Petroleum Co., Mexico would...
...prospect had Mexican Movie Actress Maria Felix biting her nails. She was afraid that in her new picture, Rio Escondido, a bit-player would steal the show. The bit-player: President Miguel Alemán, playing himself when he presents Maria Felix as a schoolma'am an award for her fight against illiteracy. For Alemán, who knew Hollywood well in pre-presidential days and who is now anxious to give Mexican movies a hand up, it would be a screen debut. Said famed Director "El Indio" Fernandez last week, readying camera, lights and greasepaint...