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Born. To Mexico's energetic President Miguel Alemán, 44, and Beatriz Velasco de Alemán, 36; their third child (first in 13 years), a son; by Caesarean section in a Mexico City hospital. Name: Jorge Francisco. The relieved father rushed off to Cuernavaca, shot some better-than-usual (84) golf...
This was just the beginning of a prodigious round of appearances and entertainment. Mexico's black-haired President Miguel Alemán held a reception for him at the National Palace, a dinner at his residence. The Minister of Foreign Affairs held another reception. When Harry Truman reciprocated with a party at the U.S. Embassy, dozens of guests showed up with gifts...
Mexico's high-riding oil workers got a jolt. When riggers and refinery men walked out last week, in one of their periodic 24-hour stoppages to force wage concessions, the new Alemán Government cracked right back. Troops were called out to guard property of Pemex, the Government's oil monopoly. Furthermore, deliveries went on: jeeploads of soldiers with machine guns at the ready convoyed gas trucks through the capital's streets...
...Within two weeks of his election as mayor in 1942, he had launched such a housecleaning as Mexico had rarely seen. He cracked down on a free-flowing traffic in narcotics, stolen autos and women, kicked grafters out of the city hall. He was the sort of independent President Alemán wanted to bring order out of the Government's inefficient, graft-ridden petroleum monopoly. Said Bermudez when he took the job three weeks ago: "I am going to put Pemex on a businesslike basis...
...Alba, the new minister, seemed just the man for the job of spending it. A serious-minded crusader who specialized in hydraulic engineering at the University of Mexico and had thought of practically nothing else since, Orive Alba was a top example of the nonpolitical character of most of Alemán's new Cabinet...