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...first mention of Diaz Ordaz as the P.R.I, candidate, the Communist weekly Politica printed a grotesque cover photo of him, with the caption: "He will not be President." Though most far-leftists within the P.R.I, are still against him, some who had bitterly opposed Lopez Mateos, have decided to play it cool and support the more conservative Diaz Ordaz...
...Diaz Ordaz' relations with the U.S., Washington regards him as a friend but an independent one-which is just where most other recent Mexican Presidents have stood...
...tapado?"-Who is the hooded one? In other words, what man was the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) secretly choosing to be the country's next President? Last week the guessing was over. The P.R.I.'s choice is Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, 52, Secretary of Government in the Cabinet of incumbent President Adolfo López Mateos. Diaz Ordaz' title obscured his real importance. As a combination Interior Minister and Home Secretary, he is López Mateos' right-hand...
Guided Democracy. Barring accidents or acts of God, the rest is foreordained. Next week Diaz Ordaz will be formally nominated at the party convention; he will then "campaign" for six months, showing himself from the back of an open truck in every important town. In elections next July, against two or three hapless opposition candidates, he will win the presidency with some 80% of the popular vote. On Dec. 1, 1964, he will take office from President López Mateos...
Immense projects are sprouting around the world?a city for 500,000 refugees outside Karachi; two complete mining towns at Puerto Ordaz and Ciudad Piar, Venezuela; a new port area for Mombasa, Kenya; a French satellite city outside Toulouse to house 100,000 people?in which the planners are doing as much as the politicians and statesmen to determine how men will live tomorrow. And the planner who has the most to plan with is the man in the Bentley: William Leonard Pereira, 54, an architect from Chicago who is pinning more and more of the state of California...