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...Cadillac to a white convertible, sped off on a mystery trip that took him some 150 miles through sunny Southern California. His destination on the most crucial day of his career: Tijuana, Mexico, where he lunched (enchiladas, tacos and German beer) with Tijuana's mayor, Xicotencatl Leyva Aleman. Nixon stopped by the roadside to play touch football briefly with a group of marines from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, took time off on the way back to show an aide the San Juan Capistrano Mission, gulp down a pineapple milk shake at a roadside stand...
...Aleman sent López Mateos off to international conferences in Washington (where he developed a taste for U.S. cheesecake from Duke Zeibert's Restaurant), Argentina and Switzerland, and appointed him Ambassador to Costa Rica. Moving higher in government circles, he met a top bureaucrat named Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Soon the two Adolfos were taking long and friendly walks through the city at night. When Ruiz Cortines was nominated as P.R.I.'s presidential candidate in 1951, he got López Mateos to manage his campaign. López Mateos did so well that on inauguration...
Jury of Three. The choice of Lopez Mateos came as something of a surprise. Three other Cabinet Ministers-rightists in the P.R.I.-were considered the leading contenders. But in choosing his successor, Middle-of-the-Roader Ruiz Cortines listened long to ex-Presidents Lazaro Cardenas and Miguel Aleman, who control the left and right wings of the P.R.I. Leftist Cardenas, with his millions of farm and labor backers, was clearly the more persuasive-and he vetoed the frontrunners. Lopez Mateos, not committed to left or right, was acceptable to all three President-makers...
...started in 1946 when business-minded Miguel Aleman became President of Mexico, named Antonio Bermudez, a wealthy whisky distiller, to head Pemex. Bermudez cracked down on graft and featherbedding, stepped up exploration. By 1951, production was twice that of 1938; last year the nation's wells produced 94.1 million bbl. Geologists and oil engineers, trained at the University of Mexico, directed a wildcatting program, using 146 drilling rigs, that brought in 18 new fields out of 84 tries...
Second Rank. Behind these three is another trio, still not counted out. Adolfo López Mateos, 47, is the handsome Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, is on close terms with Ruiz Cortines, Cardenas and Aleman, but many politicians feel he should wait for 1964. Finance Minister Antonio Carrillo Flores, 48, has masterminded Mexico's phenomenal economic boom, is generally regarded as the Cabinet's most brilliant member, but is not widely known. Ernesto Uruchurtu, 50, a former Interior Minister and now governor of the Federal District, has made fans through his drastic face lifting...