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...presidential version of Grauman's Chinese Theater forecourt, already includes the names of John Kennedy, all seven original U.S. astronauts, and Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Last week, in a favorite ranch ritual, Lyndon added two new ones as Mexico's President-elect Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Wife Guadalupe stooped to etch their signatures with nails in the fresh cement...
...purpose of the Díaz Ordaz visit was a round of private talks with Johnson on trade, migrant labor, the Alliance for Progress, and the like. But before they began, the Mexicans found out how extensive L.B.J. hospitality can be. Lyndon jockeyed out to meet the Díaz Ordaz plane on the asphalt runway behind the ranch house in his electric golf cart, the same one in which he gave Lady Bird a few anxious moments careening around the grounds the next day (see cut). Díaz Ordaz was ready for him, and with a grin even...
...even walked all the way to Guatemala-700 miles-in 36 days. He went on to cover a lot of ground as Mexico's 59th President. Last week, in his sixth-and final-state-of-the-nation address before surrendering his sash of office to Gustavo Díaz Ordaz in December. López Mateos trotted through the impressive record. It took almost three hours, and most of the speech dealt with Mexico's booming prosperity which has become the marvel of other envious Latin American governments...
...contrast, the panoramic national novel still flourishes in Latin America. Especially in Mexico, writers struggle to establish an orthodox fable of the Revolution. It did not happen once and for all between the death of Porfirio Díaz in 1915 and the uneasy truce of church and state in 1925; it is a continuous affair, its unfinished business exciting in 1964. The basic facts of national history are still passionately argued...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 16--Urging policy of "brinkmanship" in foreign affairs, Senator Barry M. Goldwater (R-AZ) asserted tonight that the United States must not negotiate the Berlin crisis and "compromise away the freedom of the German people...