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Mexico celebrated the most peaceful election in its history this week. The very dullness was newsworthy. Gone were the old early morning battles for control of polling booths. For the first time, soldiers stood guard on election day. As returns poured in, Candidate Miguel Aleman claimed certain victory. The support given him by the Government bureaucracy and the big labor unions made his claim sound valid. Opposition Candidate Ezequiel Padilla shouted "fraud...
...village of La Mina, in southernmost Mexico, was playing host to Presidential Candidate Miguel Aleman, who has barnstormed 24 of Mexico's states since July 1945, by election day (July 7) will have touched all 28. On his barnstorming he has been showered with confetti; has posed with local belles (see cut). As the Government party candidate, he was almost certain...
...Mina's reception over, the Aleman caravan set out again in the midday glare, the candidate's black Cadillac sedan at its head. When the procession reached the end of the International Highway's hard surface, construction gangs served mezcal, drunk with maguey worm salt. Thereafter the road became a mule path that dipped into canyon beds, clung to mountainsides. The sun grew hotter, the dust thicker; passengers climbed out to lighten loads. In streams-shallow at the dry season-drivers parked to cool their tires...
...earthquake-ridden Tehuantepec City, Miguel Aleman made the day's first real speech from the plaza bandstand. Speaking extemporaneously to one of the world's few remaining matriarchies,* he said that Mexico's women were coming into their own. Tehuana women applauded. Tehuana men were busy shooting fireworks and drinking beer...
Next morning, in sultry Salina Cruz on the Pacific, local delegations visited Aleman. Labor wanted the port reconditioned; salt producers, more electrification ; the peasants' league, irrigation and roads. To all of them he said he hopes, as President, to do something about such problems. Said Candidate Aleman to U.S. correspondents with him: "I invite you to come back to this region with me three years from now so that you can see ... how the country has developed...