Word: madrazos
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...more and more resented by Mexico's increasingly literate (66% ) and prospering electorate. The politicians got the word soon after Gustavo Diaz Ordaz' inauguration as President last December. A stern moralist ap palled by mismanagement and corruption in the government, Diaz picked eloquent, hard-driving Carlos Madrazo, 49, to head P.R.I. and rid it of crookedness and caciquismo (bossism...
...peppery native of Tabasco who proved the most effective governor (1959-64) in his state's history, Madrazo declares: "The party cannot be the government. It should point out objectives - and demand that the government carry out those objectives." As a first step, Madrazo promises, candidates for every elective office in Mexico will be chosen "out in the daylight." He plans to replace old party hacks with bright young leaders, recently blocked an attempt by conservative P.R.I. office holders to scrap a constitutional provision restricting Congressmen to a single term. To infuse a "new mystique and a new militancy...
...Punta's owners, Francisco ("Paco") and Jose ("Pepe") Madrazo, are scions of one of the clans that flourished in the days of Porfirio Diaz. They have lived serenely through the social upheaval that started in 1910. Within the 100 miles of fence that shields them from the new world, Don Paco and Don Pepe have saved and cherished much...
...Leocadia Zamora. Author Bowers is the first biographer to discover her portrait and her subsequent history. Like Antoinette Bolviller she had a meditative maturity. After Irving left Madrid she appeared less & less in society, finally founded a convent and entered it as mother superior, requiring that her portrait by Madrazo be painted over with a nun's habit. Years later it was restored...