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Four hours after landing in New Orleans, President Eisenhower turned his eyes to Texas and a quiet weekend at the 15,000-acre ranch of Democratic Governor Allan Shivers. This week he continued his southward journey into Mexico. Crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo, he met Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and with him dedicated the $50 million international Falcon Dam, a five-mile-long earth and rock-fill barrier, that will bring irrigation and flood control to both sides of the Rio Grande and electricity to light up the border towns. Before the dedication, both Presidents watched...
When the last ceremonies were over and the last toast drunk, the President and el Presidente bade each other a cordial goodbye and adios, and Ike motored 72 miles back to Texas. Laredo's mayor, who is named Hugh Cluck, greeted the weary but still beaming President, and saw him off on the Columbine for the trip back to Washington...
...House in Denver announced that President Eisenhower and Mexico's cleanup President will meet at the international border Oct. 19. The occasion: dedication of the largest joint U.S.-Mexican border undertaking on record-the $50,000,000 Falcon Dam across the Rio Grande River 75 miles downstream from Laredo, Texas...
...years ago, in this space, I first introduced you to Rafael Delgado Lozano, the ubiquitous man of all work in TIME'S Mexico City news bureau, and described something of the life he leads there. TIME and Delgado met one spring morning on the Laredo Highway back in 1938. He was taking idle roadside bets as to whether the next U.S. automobile coming down the road would have crumpled fenders (about 50% of the cars showed signs of having smacked jaywalking cattle somewhere along the highway...
...Laredo, the Rio Grande ran dry (TIME, June 15), until irrigation upstream was curtailed. Grass on the ranges is burning brown and then disappearing. Great cracks are ripping open in the bare, scorched earth. The brown soil is blowing, an eerie haze against the blazing blue sky, forming dunes in the fields and lying in ripples against the sides of buildings...