Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week President Ruiz Cortines made good on his promise. As his first notable legislative gesture after naming the new cabinet, he sent to Congress a constitutional amendment designed to give Mexican women full citizenship rights, including the vote. Smiling down from the congressional gallery, as the proposal was read, was Amalia Ledon...
...secret room in the bowels of the pyramidal "Temple of Inscriptions" at Palenque is probably "the most sumptuous mortuary chamber in the western hemisphere." The six skeletons which Mexican Archaeologist Alberto Ruz Luhillier found there last summer (TIME, July 7) had almost surely been offered up to an ancient Indian deity. But Dr. Ruz had a hunch that the sacrificial stone, encrusted with Mayan hieroglyphics, might be more than a great altar. Before he could investigate further, money ran out and the rains came...
...voluntarily or be brought back to testify on the city scandals. But this was mostly talk. If O'Dwyer chooses to stay in Mexico-as he has strongly indicated he will-he cannot be brought back unless 1) he is charged with a specific crime, and 2) his Mexican friends can be persuaded that it is legally necessary to extradite...
Some call him the Calvin Coolidge of Mexican politics. His early career as a major in revolutionary armies, then as a government clerk with a passion for statistics, was honorable but undistinguished. His rise began in 1937 when he became Miguel Alemán's trusted aide. He followed Aleman right up the steps through the governorship of their native state of Veracruz and the Ministry of Interior to the presidency. But he is more than a protege of Alemán (who is twelve years his junior). Mexicans think that Ruiz Cortines, with his addiction to statistics, knows...
...ribbon-cutting jaunts, none was more significant than his brief journey to dedicate a plaza being cleared by the government in front of the Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexican Catholicism's national shrine in one of the capital's northern suburbs. The ceremony over, the smiling President turned and flung his arms around grizzled old Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez in an emotional abrazo. That gesture to the-primate of Mexico dramatically told the approving crowd of thousands-and all Mexico-how much the historic breach between church & state in Mexico has been healed...