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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Echeverria's major challenge will be to spur the growth of the underdeveloped rural economy; at least half of Mexico's 47 million people live in areas largely untouched by the prosperity that has brought forests of TV antennas, rows of private homes and traffic jams to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Next President: Not Left, Not Right | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

If there is little suspense connected with Mexico's forthcoming presidential elections, there was none at all as Brazil last week formally chose General Emilio Garrastazú Médici, 63, as its head of state. For the past month, government printers in Brasilia, the capital, have been engraving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: New President: Medium-Hard | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

To dress up Medici's election with a little democracy, the generals allowed Congress to reconvene for the first time since it was dissolved ten months ago in a military crackdown on civilian dissent. There is not much chance that the legislators will ever cause the new President any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: New President: Medium-Hard | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Chatting with a neighbor recently, a Melbourne, Australia, carpenter named Terry Cooke confided that he was one digit away from the winning number in a $28,000 lottery. "I don't know whether I'm lucky or unlucky," he said. At the time the remark mystified the neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Paradise Lost | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Resuming the straight life, Biggs earned $95.26 a week as a carpenter and was eager for Saturday overtime of $27.94. Charmain, after the birth of a third son, worked the 4 to midnight shift as a packer in a toilet-tissue plant. "That's the laugh of the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Paradise Lost | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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