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...first nine months in office, President Miguel Aleman has been visited by a Job-like succession of "acts of God." Foot-&-mouth disease wrecked the cattle industry, grasshoppers stripped the fields of southern Mexico, storms blocked main highways, drought left fields barren and brown. Last week he said: "One of my Cabinet ministers told me that all we needed to make the story of disaster complete was a fire in the Poza Rica oilfields. Pronto a phone rang. I picked it up. It was a man saying Well No. 6 at Poza Rica was afire." Last week, 13 days after...
...price of bread. It did not settle the question of where Mexican husbands were going to get more money for the increased gasto that their wives demanded. More & more Mexicans blamed their Government for high prices. Less & less were they inclined to listen calmly to the advice of President Aleman: "Prices will not come down until you work harder and produce more...
...rocky cliff was jammed with people hanging from every outcropping. At the foot, President Miguel Aleman stepped forward to lay a wreath. Then, one by one, cadet delegations from 16 hemisphere countries marched into the little enclosure, saluted, marched out. There was applause for the Brazilians, the Argentines, the Colombians. Then applause grew louder. It became a roar. High on the cliffside, men shouted "Hi! Hi! Hi!" It had been no mistake after all. Next to cadets from their own Colegio Militar, Mexicans had given the five white-uniformed West Pointers the biggest hand...
...Miguel Aleman wanted an English scarf. He was in no hurry. He lingered over a red and black number, asked Bloch what he thought of it. Finally he selected a red scarf with yellow dots and a yellow one with red dots. He paid, picked up his package and walked out on to Madero's narrow sidewalk. An Indian lottery-ticket seller murmured "Good day, Mr. President." "Yes, but too hot," grinned Aleman. But most passers-by brushed past without noticing. A few looked back startled, not quite believing what they saw-for until recently Mexico had seen...
Then around the corner came the presidential Cadillac. Aleman climbed in, rode off to his Chapultepec home...