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Mexico's new President dealt vigorously with the country's most pressing problem: agriculture. His proposed laws to secure the peasants' titles to their lands (TIME, Dec. 16) were already before Congress. Last week, his second in office, Miguel Alemán sent Congress a bill overhauling Mexico's irrigation program...
...President Miguel Alemán packed action into his first week in office. Determined to increase Mexico's skimpy food production, he asked Congress to remove the threat of expropriation from small landholders by amending the Constitution.* Once owners were sure of their farms, Alemán hoped that they would improve them, raise more crops...
...President Camacho. ¶Made a big hit with newsmen by holding Mexico's first give& amp; -take presidential press conference, broke another Mexican precedent by starting it at the scheduled time. But he neatly parried all attempts to define his new regime as right or left. Said Alemán, "My Government will be in ac cord with the wishes of the people...
...fighters streaked by. Inside Mexico City's brilliant, white marble Palacio de Bellas Artes, outgoing chief executive Manuel Avila Camacho gave over the red, white and green band that was his symbol of office, and an aide quickly adjusted it diagonally across the chest of angular Miguel Alem...
...Giro's and Sans Souci often run into three figures, and if the waiter adds a 20 for himself, few complain. Last week a shipload of Rolls-Royce limousines was en route from England to retail at $13,000. All were spoken for-including one for President Alem...